Breathlessness Management

Breathlessness is a common and distressing symptom in many advanced long term diseases, causing considerable disability, anxiety and social isolation.  Both the person who suffers from it and those closest to them can  become anxious and sometimes depressed and worried by the impact of breathlessness.  

The good news is that there are lots of things that can be done to help manage it. The information leaflets and other links on this page have been designed to  help individuals and their families cope better with persistent breathlessness. 

The information leaflets were reproduced and adapted for NHS Tayside by a multidisciplinary working group with help and advice from patients. The working group would like to thank and acknowledge the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service, Addenbrookes Hospital ,Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  for their original work and kind permission to reproduce it .