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We welcome applications for membership from all who work in respiratory healthcare in all settings in medicine and other professions who share our ambition to improve standards of care for people with respiratory diseases and to support those who provide that care.

Member benefits include:

Access to our highly regarded journal, Thorax (some categories of membership only)
Excellent delegate discounts to our short courses and annual Summer and Winter Meetings
UK based BTS members receive a heavily discounted membership rate for the European Respiratory Society, and full access to ERS member benefits
The opportunity to become involved in our work via an annual call for volunteers to stand for election for one of our Committees, Specialist Advisory Groups or Guideline Groups
Discounted author submission fee for papers accepted by BMJ Open Respiratory Research
Free Access to Thoracic Ultrasound Online Learning Resources

Members pay a 12 month subscription which is renewable annually on the 1 July.

Members who join between 1 August - 30 April will pay a pro rata sum of the rates given below. Members who join 1 May - 31 July will pay the cost below, which covers their membership until the end of June the following calendar year.

Membership of the Society is not open to persons who are or have been full, or part-time, employees of, or paid consultants to, the tobacco industry at any time during the previous 10 years.

We offer a discount for members who are on maternity/paternity or sick leave for three months or longer. Contact us at membership@brit-thoracic.org.uk for more information.

BTS Members in Northern Ireland receive a 50% discount on the membership subscription for the Irish Thoracic Society (ITS). The discounted rate is applied to the joining and renewal subscription for ITS.

For further information, please read the terms and conditions of membership

Member Category	Standard Rate Credit/Debit card	Discounted Rate Direct Debit	Eligibility
Category A (includes Thorax)	£270	£250	Consultant physicians, locum consultants, SAS doctors, specialty doctors Integrated care doctors, GPs Retired medical consultants doing paid sessional work, or those who have retired and returned to clinical practice Industry professionals, managers If you live outside of the UK (International Members)
Category B (includes Thorax)	£170	£150	IMT3 or GP ST1 who wish to take the journal Specialty Trainees Specialty Trainees on OOPE, OOPR or other leave Nurses and other health care professionals who wish to take the Journal Lecturers and clinical fellows (not consultants or those who have completed their CCT, who would be Category A) Advanced Clinical Practitioners who wish to take the journal Categories B and C are open to non-medical consultants (e.g. nurse consultants, clinical scientists) and Physician Associates. Specialty Trainees: upon completion of the CCT, membership transfers to Category A.
Category C (does not include Thorax)	£60	£40	Core medical trainees (CMT), Internal Medicine (IM1/2) and foundation year 1 and 2 doctors, GP ST1 IMT3 Nurses and other health care professionals including members of BALR and clinical scientists who do not wish to take the journal Medical students studying to become qualified doctors Physician Associates Advanced Clinical Practitioners who do not wish to take the journal Please note, doctors and trainee doctors (other than CMTs, IM1/2s and F1/2s) must take the Journal and so do not qualify for Category C
Category D (does not include Thorax)	Free	Free	Any member who has fully retired from clinical practice and has held membership in another category for a minimum of 1 year immediately preceding the request for retired membership
Category E (includes Thorax)	£270	£250	Fully retired members who were previously Category A, who wish to take the journal.