Welcome to the website of the North of England Thoracic Society, also known as NETS. We are a group of multidisciplinary clinicians working and interested in the field of thoracic medicine and surgery, and are based in the North East and Cumbria. We aim to improve care for patients suffering with thoracic disease, promote good respiratory health, and increase knowledge and learning for our membership through regular educational events.
Our history is rich. We were founded in 1918 as the North of England Tuberculosis Society and in the more than hundred years since, our members have shaped the fields of Respiratory medicine and Thoracic surgery. Today, our membership is broad and varied, including physicians, surgeons, nurses, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists, amongst a number of other allied health professional groups.
We hope you find our website of use. If you are not yet a member and are a healthcare professional, please do consider joining us. We charge a small annual membership fee, with the vast majority of our educational events then free to our members.
If you have been a member of NETS for a while the way we are running the society is changing. Our website is new. We hope it will future proof us for the next 100 years. From now on, you will need to sign up as a member on the website - all our events and your subs will be processed through it; society communications will soon only be sent to those with an account on the website. Once you've registered (click the 'join' button above right), please go to the subscription tab in your account to pay your subs. You'll then be able to sign up for any and all NETS events in the future. Membership subs have now risen to £25 per year as hosting our events and has unfortunatley become dearer. If you have already paid your subs this year by standing order there is a discount code that you can use and has been emailed to you (contact the committee if you've lost this). Once you've signed up and paid your subs please ensure you cancel your standing order to us - we cannot do this for you. We hope you enjoy the site and find it easy to use.