About Help BEAT Respiratory Disease

Help BEAT Respiratory Disease is part of Research for the Future.  It is an NHS supported campaign that helps people living with respiratory disease find out about and take part in health and care research.

Getting involved in research means you are not only helping to discover new ways to prevent, diagnose and manage illnesses but also learning more about living with and managing your own condition.  Find out more.

About Respiratory Disease

Respiratory disease is the name given to any condition affecting the airways and other structures of the lungs.  Respiratory disease can also be called lung disease.

Examples of respiratory disease include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and bronchiectasis.  Find out more about respiratory disease and how to manage it on the British Lung Foundation website.

Around one in five people in the UK have developed asthma, COPD or another long term respiratory illness. Every week 10,000 people in the UK are newly diagnosed with lung disease.
If you’re interested in finding out how you can take part in respiratory research studies, join Help BEAT Respiratory Disease. By signing up you could help to improve future generations’ healthcare.

Joining Help BEAT Respiratory Disease

Joining Help BEAT Respiratory Disease is free. When you sign up, we will ask you for your contact details, what respiratory condition you have and whether you have any allergies. We will explain the different types of research and you can tell us which of these you are interested in.

It is always your decision whether you take part in any research we tell you about. Your participation is completely voluntary and you can withdraw from a study or from the Research for the Future database at any time without it affecting the care you receive.

Any information you provide is stored on a secure NHS database and will never be passed to anyone else.  Please see our Privacy Notice for further details about how we protect your personal information.

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