Breathlessness Diagnostic Package
Find out what’s causing your symptoms with our comprehensive heart and lung assessment.
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Find out what’s causing your symptoms with our comprehensive heart and lung assessment.
Book Your ConsultationThe British Heart Foundation notes that breathlessness is a common symptom of several serious but treatable heart conditions, including heart failure, valve disease, and atrial fibrillation. Nearly 900,000 people in the UK are living with heart failure. The good news is that the majority of individuals with these conditions can continue to live a long, full life with the right diagnosis and support.
Breathlessness deserves proper attention, not just a recommendation to 'keep an eye' and come back in six weeks, and not reassurance based on a single test that only tells part of the story. The heart and lungs are closely connected, and symptoms like these can come from either, or both. Finding out which requires a thorough, joined-up assessment that can give you concrete answers.
You may benefit from our Breathlessness Diagnostic Package if you:
Breathlessness often comes on gradually over time. It might start with the stairs that never used to bother you. Perhaps you start waking in the night, not quite knowing why, only that your chest feels tight and your breath feels short.
There is a real difference between being told nothing serious was found on one test and knowing with absolute certainty that both your heart and lungs have been thoroughly assessed by a specialist who knows exactly what they’re looking for.
Our Breathlessness Diagnostic package gives you:
Our Breathlessness Diagnostic Package is available on a self-pay basis with fixed, all-inclusive pricing with no hidden charges.
Available as a fixed-price self-pay bundle, making costs clear from the outset.
(Saving £222 compared with booking all tests separately)
Instalment plan available 4 x monthly payments of £430, please email us at enquiries@oneheartclinic.com for more details.
If additional or alternative tests are recommended based on your symptoms or previous results, these will be explained in advance, including any extra costs, so you can decide how to proceed.
This diagnostic package will help determine if the cause of breathlessness is related to a cardiac condition or if an onward referral to a respiratory specialist is required.
By combining non-invasive functional tests, imaging, and lab tests, with specialist interpretation, this package goes much further than standard health checks, providing a personalised, test-based picture of your heart and lungs health. For ultimate peace of mind.
An in-depth conversation about your symptoms, what triggers them, your history, and risk factors. It’s the foundation for everything that follows. At your follow-up, your cardiologist will go through test results, diagnosis, and what happens next.
Covers cholesterol, blood glucose, thyroid, kidney and liver function, and NT-proBNP, a blood marker that rises when the heart is under strain and is a key early signal for heart failure.
A quick, painless check of your heart's electrical activity, looking for rhythm problems or signs of strain that can sit quietly behind breathlessness.
A real-time look at the structure of your heart and how it is functioning, including pump strength, valve health, and whether pressure in the lung circulation is raised.
Checks for fluid on the lungs, an enlarged heart, or lung changes such as scarring or infection.
Measures how much air you can move and how quickly, screening for conditions like asthma, COPD, or other causes of restricted breathing.
Specialist centres that focus on cardiology offer rapid access to all key cardiac tests, interpreted by experienced consultant cardiologists who manage both prevention and treatment of heart disease. Where results point towards a respiratory cause, there are established referral pathways to respiratory specialists, so nothing falls through the gaps and you always have a clear and supported path forward. This integrated approach supports consistent care from initial heart risk assessment through to any further investigations or interventions that might be needed.
One Heart Clinic’s consultants are involved in national and international cardiovascular research and follow contemporary European and UK prevention guidelines, ensuring that risk assessment and recommendations reflect the latest evidence. Patients also benefit from a concierge-style administrative team that coordinates appointments and results, reducing delays and uncertainty.
Your heart deserves the best. With our expert team and unmatched care, we’re here to help you thrive.
Your heart health is in the hands of OHC’s renowned cardiologists and surgeons, whose expertise shapes global standards.
Our ConsultantsIt is completely normal to feel a bit winded after a strenuous workout or a brisk walk up a long flight of stairs. However, when you experience breathlessness on exertion, unexpectedly or during routine daily activities that don’t normally cause it, it can be an early warning sign of an underlying concern.
While breathlessness is technically a symptom itself, the way it manifests can vary from person to person. Common breathlessness symptoms and associated sensations include:
Surprisingly, breathlessness is one of the most common symptoms of heart conditions. Breathlessness causes can include heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and valve disease, but it can equally come from the lungs, or from both systems at once. The only way to know is to look at both, which is what our Breathlessness Diagnostic Package is designed to do.
Heart failure means the heart is not pumping as effectively as it should, which causes fluid to build and breathlessness to develop. Despite what the term suggests, it doesn’t mean the heart has stopped or is about to. Many people with heart failure manage it well with the right treatment, but getting that diagnosis early, rather than late, makes a real difference to how well it can be controlled and how much it impacts your future health.
NT-proBNP is a protein the heart releases when it’s under pressure. When levels are elevated in a blood test, it’s often the first sign that the heart is struggling, sometimes even before an echocardiogram shows anything obvious. Including it means this package can pick up heart strain at the earliest possible stage.
This pattern, worse when lying down, better sitting up, is called orthopnoea and it is a recognised symptom of heart failure. It happens because fluid redistributes to the lungs when you lie flat. If this is something you experience regularly, it’s worth mentioning at your consultation.
Anxiety genuinely can cause breathlessness, and it’s worth raising at your appointment. But it should be a conclusion reached after ruling out physical causes, not the default assumption. This assessment makes sure nothing cardiac or respiratory is being missed before any other explanation is settled on.
The package includes both a chest X-ray and spirometry specifically so that respiratory causes are not overlooked in what is primarily a cardiology setting. If findings point that way, we have direct referral pathways to respiratory specialists and will make sure your onward care is properly coordinated.
If everything comes back normal, this is a genuinely positive outcome, and it’s one worth having confirmed properly rather than assumed. Your cardiologist will still go through the results with you and discuss whether de-conditioning, lifestyle factors, or anything else might be contributing. If symptoms continue despite normal findings, next steps will be discussed at that point.
Most patients complete the full package in a single visit or across two closely scheduled appointments. Blood results including NT-proBNP come back quickly, and follow-up is arranged promptly so you’re not left waiting.
No, you can come directly. Any previous results or letters are useful to bring but are not a requirement.
We partner with Chrysalis Finance to offer instalment plans, subject to status and credit checks. These plans typically allow treatment costs to be spread over several months or years with fixed monthly payments and flexible deposit options. Please ask our team for more details.
Your breathlessness journey is simply and clearly structured, so you know what's happening at every step.
Schedule your assessment at a convenient clinic location as a self-pay patient.
Meet your cardiologist and attend for your ECG, echocardiogram, X-ray, lung spirometry test, and blood tests, usually over one or two closely timed visits.
Return for a follow-up consultation where your cardiologist explains your results, answers questions, and outlines a personalised treatment strategy, including lifestyle measures, medication, and any recommended follow-up.