Annual General Meeting

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the British Thoracic Society will be held on Wednesday 2nd December 2020 at 4:30PM virtually on Zoom. Please register in advance via Zoom: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FREtv- O6SYeHAq-FBBfXNw

It would be fair to say that the BTS Strategic Plan highlighted in the 2019 AGM papers and Annual Report and aligned to the 4 UK Nations’ Health Plans, took a step back in 2020 due to the unprecedented challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic placed upon the global population and global healthcare. Specifically, this presented both the British public and our healthcare systems with huge challenges at all levels. Respiratory medicine, BTS and its members have stepped up to this task with impressive innovation, dedication, hard graft and positivity.

BTS is, and has been, one of the premier sources of guidance on the management of COVID-19 with a dedicated website hosting BTS guidance, as well as information from government sources across the four nations and allied specialist societies. The webpages have been, and continue to be, viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

We are all aware that we are not out of the fire by any stretch and the prospect of managing “endemic” acute COVID-19, COVID-19 follow up including “Post COVID-19 Syndrome” together with seasonal “Winter pressures” allied to our “usual” population of patients with respiratory disease is going to remain challenging.

As with the general population, this has not been without a physical and emotional cost, with many of our members being infected and suffering stress, anxiety and potential burnout. However, the respiratory community continues to remain highly resilient, adaptable and motivated, providing the highest possible care for our patients.

More than ever, BTS continues to strive to be more effective in pursuit of our objectives for patient benefit, by:-

 finding ways of unifying the professional and patient voice within our structures;  promoting awareness of the respiratory workforce and how it contributes to patient care and innovation in delivery across the patient pathway;  promoting awareness of respiratory disease and its significant impacts on health outcomes, mortality and health inequalities;  producing world-class clinical standards and related quality improvement tools;  seeking more effective synergies with others;  promoting equality of opportunity and outcomes in all that we do;  developing effective communication and engagement systems.

We have used the threat of the pandemic to realise opportunities for increased advocacy, implementing synergies with other bodies, and conducting the business and educational events of the BTS virtually.

The Officers, HQ staff and I would like to thank all of our members for their unstinting hard work and dedication during this past tumultuous year.

Members who were actively involved in planning, delivering and evaluating the effectiveness of what we do are listed on the inside back cover of this booklet.

Jon Bennett Chair of the BTS Board of Trustees

BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Wednesday 2nd December 2020 at 4.30pm by Zoom

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A G E N D A

The Society’s President, Dr Mohammed Munavvar, will be in the Chair.

1. Apologies for absence

2. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Wednesday 4th December 2019 (Paper 1)

3. Matters arising from the minutes if not elsewhere on the agenda

4. Report from the Chair of the Board of Trustees

Members are referred also to the Annual Report from the Board of Trustees which can be found here: https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/about-us/governance-documents-and- policies/

4.1 Professor Jon Bennett will give a brief overview of activities during the year. He will focus on the Society and the speciality’s work in relation to COVID-19 in pandemic and endemic stages, re-setting and follow-up respiratory services; the Board’s revision of BTS strategy for the coming 3 years; and changes in BTS head office staffing and structure.

5. Report from the Honorary Treasurer

5.1 Report and financial statements for the period ended 30 June 2020 (Paper 2) 5.2 Investments 5.3 Membership Fees for 2021, including the raising by ERS of the annual fee for ERS membership from £20 to £30 a year. 5.4 Revision of membership administration arrangements. 5.5 Delegate rates for Meetings in 2021 5.6 Appointment of auditors for 2020/2021

6. Report from Editors of Thorax and British Open Respiratory Research (BORR)

6.1 The annual reports from the Editors-in-Chief are enclosed (Papers 3a and 3b)

7 Office Bearers and Trustees

7.1 President and President-elect 2021 The Honorary Secretary will report. Following the call for nominations in the summer of 2020, Rachel Moses was nominated and was returned unopposed. She will serve as President-elect with effect from December 2020, serving as President for one year from November 2021. Dr Graham Burns will serve as President in 2021.

7.2 Chair of BTS Board The post of Chair is advertised in the year before the current incumbent demits office, as required by the Society’s constitution. This allows for effective handover to take place during the coming year. Following advertisement in the summer of 2020, interviews took place in October. The Board is pleased to announce that Dr Paul Walker will take over as Chair of the BTS Board in November 2021, serving for three years until November 2024.

7.3 Honorary Treasurer Dr John Park will succeed Dr Paul Walker as Hon. Treasurer with effect from the AGM, serving until November 2023.

7.4 Trustee appointment during the year Following due process including interview, Dr Charlotte Addy was appointed as Chair of the Workforce and Service Development Committee, and thereby Trustee and will serve for three years, until November 2023.

7.5 The Honorary Secretary will report on plans to replace the Lay Trustee, Alice Joy.

8. Election of members of Council The board agreed in June 2020 to extend the length of service of all members of Council, Standing Committees and Chairs and members of Advisory Groups by a year, so that the hiatus in the work of BTS Committees and related activities would not cause disadvantage to those who would otherwise miss out on almost 6 months of service. An election for members of Council was not therefore necessary this year.

9. BTS Medal and Meritorious Service Award

9.1 BTS Medal The President will award two Medals and recipients will make brief responses:

Dr Bernard Higgins Professor John Moxham

9.2 BTS Award for Meritorious Service The President will make this award to Dr David Smith who will make a brief response.

10 Votes of thanks

10.1 To all members of BTS.

10.2 Officers who will stand down at the AGM:- Dr Mohammed Munavvar, President Dr Paul Walker, Honorary Treasurer

10.3 Trustees who will stand down at the AGM:- Dr Justine Hadcroft and Dr Graham Wilson, co-Chairs of the Workforce and Service Development Committee

11. Date of next AGM 5.30 pm on Wednesday 24th November 2021.

PAPER 1

MINUTES of the meeting of the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY held on Wednesday 4th December 2019 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE

Dr Mark Elliott presiding.

The meeting was quorate, with 62 members attending.

1. Apologies for absence had been received from Dr Ian Campbell, Miss Cassandra Lynch, Dr Rod Lawson, Dr Hazel Morrison, Mr Alan Anderson, Dr Richard Lee and Dr Melissa Wickremasinghe.

2. Minutes of the last meeting (Meeting paper 1)

2.1 The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 5th December 2018 were confirmed as an accurate record.

3. Matters arising There were no matters arising.

4. Report from the Chair of the Board of Trustees

4.1 The Chair of the BTS Board of Trustees, Professor Jon Bennett, presented a brief report on BTS activities over the past year and summarised the achievements in 2019. He noted that 1 in 6 BTS members plays an active role in the Society for which he and all Trustees were extremely grateful. Professor Bennett emphasised that every activity undertaken by the Society was to help deliver the best outcomes for patients.

4.2 Core activities included the successful Summer and Winter Meetings and the high quality BTS short course programme. The Sumer Meeting had made a surplus for the second year running after 10 years of being in deficit. Professor Bennett noted the Summer Meeting now has a much stronger identity.

4.3 The BTS Guideline for Bronchiectasis in Adults had been published in late 2018 and the BTS/SIGN British Guideline on the Management of Asthma was published in July 2019. Work on further Guidelines continued during the year. The BTS Quality Standards for the Outpatient Management of Pulmonary Embolism was published in October 2019. Several Clinical Statements will be published shortly. It had been another busy year for the Society’s Audit Programme. Adult NIV, Smoking Cessation and Adult CAP audits are all in progress. Professor Bennett acknowledged the enormous amount of work that goes into the Quality Improvement work at BTS and thanked all those involved with this aspect of the Society’s work.

4.4 Respiratory Futures continued to develop. Professor Bennett highlighted what an excellent resource this is for people working is respiratory medicine and encouraged BTS members to promote the site when possible.

4.5 Professor Bennett reported that he and Sheila Edwards had met with Baroness Dido Harding, Chair of NHS Improvement who is tasked with delivering a new People Plan for the NHS in England, and had discussed workforce issues across all relevant disciplines. This had been an excellent opportunity for the Society to express concerns as well as suggest possible solutions to the shortfall of staff in respiratory medicine.

4.6 Professor Bennett noted it had again been a challenging year for all those working and training in the NHS and reconfirmed the Society’s objectives in support of all those working in the respiratory specialty.

4.7 Professor Bennett thanked all members of the Society for their support during the year, especially his fellow Officers and Sheila Edwards, Sally Welham and the team at BTS head office.

5. Report from the Honorary Treasurer (Meeting paper 2)

5.1 Dr Paul Walker presented the Honorary Treasurer’s report for the Society’s Annual Accounts for the year to 30 June 2019.

5.2 The Society had achieved a robust financial performance during the year. Income streams had performed solidly and investments had performed particularly well despite uncertain geopolitical times. Society assets were £6,545,377 (and had been £5,873,591 in 2018). The main source of income had again been from membership subscriptions and Thorax and BMJ Open Respiratory Research. There was a planned operating surplus of £64,620 (an operating deficit had been expected in 2018-2019). Efforts to eradicate the deficit had begun in 2017 and have been successful with near elimination earlier than predicted. The Board had taken this opportunity to invest in projects which will likely mean a modest operating deficit for the next 2-3 years.

5.3 The value of the Society’s investment portfolio at 30 June 2019 was £4,118,049 compared to £3,575,017 in 2018. The portfolio has performed solidly during the year. The Society’s head office building was valued in late 2017 at £2.8million. 5.4 Dr Walker outlined plans for membership recruitment in 2020. This included a strategy to increase trainee membership by reducing fees throughout specialty training and aiming to keep fees low for allied professionals and early IMT trainees.

5.5 Annual Membership Subscriptions Dr Walker proposed no increase in subscription fees for 2020.

The ERS arrangement was currently under review by ERS and no formal proposal is expected until 2020 but it is likely to include an increase in fee, possibly to £30 per year. This will still represent good value for BTS members.

5.6 There would be no change to the cost of delegate fees for the 2020 Winter Meeting. The fee for the Summer Meeting would remain attractive and competitive and would also probably not rise in 2020. Retired members would again asked to pay a small fee to attend both Meetings in future years, to defray costs.

5.7 Approval of the Society’s Auditors The Honorary Treasurer reported that the first audit with new auditors HaysMacintyre had been carried out and no significant problems were identified. In October 2019 the Board

approved HaysMacintyre as auditors in 2020.

5.8 There were no questions from members. The President thanked Dr Walker for his presentation and sound stewardship of the Society’s financial resources.

6. Report from the Editors of Thorax and BMJ Open Respiratory Research (Meeting paper 3)

6.1 The report from the editors of Thorax and BMJORR had been circulated to members with the agenda, and was received. The President thanked the editors of both journals for their endeavours during the year.

7. Election of Office Bearers and Trustees The Honorary Secretary made the following announcements:-

7.1 President and President-elect Dr Graham Burns had been returned as President-elect with effect from December 2019, serving as President for one year from December 2020. Dr Mohammed Munavvar would serve as President in 2020.

7.2 Honorary Secretary Dr Lisa Spencer would replace Dr Justin Pepperell as Honorary Secretary serving from December 2019 until December 2022.

7.3 Honorary Treasurer-elect Following due process, Dr John Park would serve as Honorary Treasurer from December 2020 until December 2023, and would spend 2020 shadowing Dr Walker, as outlined in the Society’s constitution.

7.4 Chair of the Education and Training Committee Following due process Dr Alanna Hare would take up the position of Chair of the Education and Training Committee at the AGM, serving to December 2022.

7.5 Chair of the Standards of Care Committee Following due process Dr Simon Hart would take up the position of Chair of the Standards of Care Committee at the AGM, serving to December 2022.

7.6 Trustee appointment during the year Dr Helen Ward was appointed as Trustee in June 2019, following a recruitment exercise in May. Her role is to support the Chair of the Board by representing the Society on the NHSE Respiratory Delivery Board and related activities.

7.7 Lay Trustee Mrs Alice Joy had provided a very helpful report and the Society will be advertising for a new Lay Trustee in early 2020.

8. Election of members of Council 8.1 The Honorary Secretary reported that the following members would join Council, serving a three year term until December 2022. As only five applications had been received, no election had been necessary this year:

 Dr Rachel Davies

 Dr Nicholas Duffy  Dr Gareth Hughes  Dr Ananthakrishnan Raghuram  Dr Thomas Ward (the “under 35” member)

9. There was no other business notified to the Chair or Secretary before the meeting.

10. Votes of thanks

10.1 Council

The President gave a vote of thanks to the following elected and ex-officio Council members who would stand down at the AGM or had demitted office earlier in the year:

Dr Angshu Bhowmik Dr Michael Gibbons Professor Mark Griffiths Dr Nick Hopkinson Professor Naj Rahman Dr Shahideh Safavi

10.2 Trustees who will stand down at the AGM:-  Dr John Park (Chair of the Education and Training Committee)

 Dr Luke Howard (Chair of the Standards of Care Committee)

 Alice Joy (Lay Trustee)

Dr Elliott thanked them for the valuable contributions to the Society and helping to raise the quality and profile of the Society’s work during the last 3 years.

10.3 Honorary Secretary All present joined Dr Elliott in thanking Dr Justin Pepperell for his significant contribution as Honorary Secretary over the last three years. His term had seen improvements and welcome developments in governance, strategy and influence, and he had been a wonderful colleague to work with. His sense of humour and pragmatic attitude had been appreciated by the Board. All wished him well as he left office.

10.4 President

On behalf of the Society Professor Bennett thanked Dr Mark Elliott for his contribution to the work of the Society throughout his term in office as President. The Society had been very lucky to have had his input, leadership and support.

11. Date of Next Meeting

11.1 Wednesday 2nd December 2020, at 5.30pm in the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London.

PAPER 2

BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY BALANCE SHEET as at 30 June 2020

2020 2019 £ £ Fixed assets: Tangible assets 1,697,850 1,760,501 Investments 4,074,385 4,118,049 5,772,235 5,878,550

Current assets: Debtors 587,880 617,775 Cash at bank & hand 904,214 982,630 1,472,094 1,600,405 Liabilities: Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (890,218) (933,578)

Net current assets 581,876 666,827

Total net assets 6,354,111 6,545,377

The funds of the charity: 75,956 Restricted income funds 107,389 Unrestricted income funds: Designated funds 5,797,233 5,903,550 General funds 449,489 565,871

Total unrestricted funds 6,246,722 6,469,421

Total charity funds 6,354,111 5,873,591

Approved by the Board of Trustees on 8 October 2020 and signed on its behalf by Dr Paul Walker Honorary Treasurer

PAPER 2 Continued

STATEMENT of FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES including an Income & Expenditure Account as at 30 June 2020

2020 2019 Unrestricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Total Restricted

£ £ £ £ £ £

Income from :

Charitable Activities

Membership 618,933 - 618,933 611,584 - 611,584

Standards & Education 77,683 50,432 128,115 316,425 75,000 391,425

Research & Innovation 1,536,753 - 1,536,753 1,503,829 1,503.829 - 25,000 Profile - - 25,000

Investments 60,104 - 60,104 66,430 66,430

Total income 2,293,473 50,432 2,343,905 2,498,268 100,000 2,598,268

Expenditure on: 34,718 34,718 Investment managements costs 37,353 - 37,353 -

Charitable activities 170,492 170,492 Membership 181,533 - 181,522 - 913,580 913,580 Standards & Education 810,867 25,025 835,892 934,887 934,887 Research & Innovation 971,014 - 971,014 379,971 442,638 Profile 479,731 5,633 503,364 62,667

2,433,648 2,496,315 Total expenditure 2,498,487 30,658 2,529,145 62,667

Net income/(expenditure) before net 64,620 gains on investments (205,014) 19,774 (185,240) 37,333 101.953

Net gains on investments (6,026) - (6,026) 569,833 - 569,833

Net income/(expenditure) for the year (211,040) 19,744 (191,266) 634,453 37,333 671,786

(37,667) - Transfers between funds (5,633) 5,633 - 37,667

Net income/(expenditure) for the year and net 596,786 671,786 movement of funds (216,673) 25,407 (191,266) 75,000

Reconciliation of funds: Total funds brought forward 6,469,421 75,956 6,545,377 5,872,635 956 5,873,591

Total funds carried forward 6,252,748 101,363 6,354,111 6,469,421 75,956 6,545,377

PAPER 3a

REPORT FROM THE EDITORS OF THORAX

The current editorial team at Thorax has now been in place for five years. There are three Editors-in- Chief: Professors Nick Hart, Gisli Jenkins and Alan Smyth. We have agreed to an extension of two years to the end of June 2022. (seven years in total). This will allow an orderly handover to the next editorial team. Recruitment of new editor(s) in chief will begin in 2021, allow the newing team to have a shadowing period to improve continuity. Current Deputy Editors are: Claire Wainwright (University of Queensland) and Prof Rachel Chambers (University College London). Our editorial strategy remains focused on originality, rigour and excellence and has led to an increased impact factor for Thorax of 10.844.

To publish excellent original manuscripts the best respiratory researchers from around the world must be encouraged to send their best work to Thorax. This is clearly a significant challenge in the current environment with the Lancet Respiratory Medicine continuing to lead the impact factor rankings, focusing on clinical research, and the European Respiratory Journal challenging the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, with both publishing high impact international guidelines. To this end we have actively sought respiratory, sleep and critical care submissions from countries where Thorax would not have previously been the first choice for the respiratory research community, such as China. Profs Jenkins and Hart have visited China as part of a BMJ group delegation to meet with academics there. When the current team took over in 2015, 4% of submission were from China and this has risen to 21% in the current year to date.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant challenges to the business continuity of Thorax. In the first 9 months of 2020, monthly submissions to the journal doubled from an average of 117 to 197 per month. One editor in chief and a large number of associate editors were seconded into full time clinical duties and were unable to perform their Thorax roles. To address these challenges, the editors in chief appointed 6 temporary associate editors, the deputy editors in chief stepped up to triage manuscripts and a one in four weekly rota for duty editor was instituted. These measures have ensured that time to first decision for reviewed papers (40 days in 2019 vs. 37 days in 2020) and time to acceptance (111 vs. 99 days) have improved rather than deteriorated when compared to 2019. The increase in submissions has led to Thorax publishing some high profile papers. These include: “COVID- 19: in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton” (published 27 May, Altmetric 2667, 25 citations to date) and “Face coverings and mask to minimise droplet dispersion and aerosolization” (first published 24 July, Altmetric 1233).

Our team of deputy, associate and statistical editors are helping us deliver rigour and excellence. A major innovation has been to offer statistical review of every manuscript that is sent for peer review. In this respect Thorax is unique amongst both BMJ family journals and respiratory journals and we believe is increasing the scientific rigour of the work we publish. Last year Thorax collaborated with a number of other respiratory, sleep, and critical care journals to produce “Unified guidance to minimise confounding in causal inference studies” (we highlighted this work with editorials in Thorax). We have continued this initiative by formulating guidelines on “Development and reporting of prediction models” Leisman DE et al Crit Care Med 2020; 48(5): 623-33. The BMJ group are partners in the recent launch of medRxiv – the preprint server for clinical medicine. We highlighted the first 6 months of medRxiv with an editorial in Thorax “Smyth AR, Rawlinson C, Jenkins G. Preprint servers: a 'rush to publish' or 'just in time delivery' for science? Thorax. 2020;75:532-3.

We have appointed Rachael Moses to the new role of Thorax Multimedia Associate Editor. Rachael has the responsibility of delivering each month a podcast detailing an important article highlighted by

12 the Editors-in-Chief. Recent podcasts include:

 No Symptoms? Why wearing a mask still matters  Behind the mask: COVID-19 exposure and viral carriage in healthcare workers  COVID-19: In the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton  Childhood obstructive sleep apnoea: it's more than a snore  Smoking in cars: how the recent ban is affecting young people in England and Scotland  Overweight and out of breath: cause and effect?

The introduction of the Research Letters for initial observations has been a tremendous success. We have now adapted these and renamed them “Brief Communications” with similar guidelines for word count, tables and references. The quality of educational content of Thorax has been maintained through excellent state of the art reviews (14 accepted in the last completed year - 2019), images and case-based discussions. We are reviewing the editorials that are commissioned to accompany the original manuscripts and indeed we have kept the word count at 1500 words but reduced the references to 10.

We have encouraged clinical trials, through protocol review and protocol publication in BMJ Open Respiratory Research. We have asked for and have received more systematic reviews and meta- analysis papers but have specific requirements in the instructions to authors which ensure the quality of these manuscripts which we have included in out re-written the instructions for authors – including a requirement for a registered protocol. Our associate editor for systematic reviews (Prof Karen Robinson) has the highest manuscript workload of the editorial team. The e-letter has been introduced to replace the correspondence letter and indeed this online commentary allows detailed debate in a more timely fashion.

Plan S poses a significant challenge to the current hybrid publishing model of Thorax, as it does to many academic society journals. At the recent BTS Management committee, a strategy was agreed to make Thorax a transformative journal with a timetable for shifting to an author pays model. This will ensure that Thorax continues to receive manuscripts from cOAlition S funded research groups. cOAlition S includes Wellcome, UK R&I and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Thorax metrics have shown resilience to the increase in submission rates. In 2019, 1401 manuscripts were submitted to Thorax (14% accepted) vs. 1573 submissions (11% accepted) in the first 9 months of 2020. Our acceptance rate for original articles this year is 7%. In the first two quarters of 2019, there were over 1.25 million page views of Thorax content. There 5669 institutions with access to Thorax in 99 countries around the world. We are optimistic that our overall strategy to focus on Originality, Rigour and Excellence in Respiratory Medicine will continue to drive the encouraging metrics until 2022 and beyond.

Nick Hart, Gisli Jenkins and Alan Smyth, Editors-in-Chief October 2020

PAPER 3b

REPORT FROM THE EDITORS OF BMJ Open Respiratory Research BMJ Open Respiratory Research (BMJORR) was launched in 2013 as an open access ‘sister’ journal to Thorax. The journal is dedicated to publishing high-quality, original research from all areas of respiratory medicine. Equal emphasis is given to publication of respiratory science and clinical research, and critical care research is also well represented in the journal.

The journal has a global reach with an international editorial board and readership. The journal is fully open access and disseminates content quickly and continuously online. BMJ Open Respiratory Research is indexed in Google Scholar, PubMed Central, Scopus and Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index). In January of this year the Journal was accepted for full indexing on Medline paving the way for an impact factor. The journal was judged 'outstanding' in three areas: scope & coverage scientific rigor and production/administration.

The current pandemic necessitated a change of the editorial staff for roughly three months as both EICs were pulled back to focus on clinical services. In our absence Professor Harish Vyas, who had recently retired from the University of Nottingham Medical School, and Dr Ed Sucksmith from BMJ Open took on our roles. The major priority for any recently established journal is attracting high quality original research submissions. Monthly journal submissions have doubled from 2019, and now stand at more than 200 submissions in 2020 to date. Submissions have increased from Europe, Japan and China. Transfers from Thorax have increased substantially from 12 in 2016 to 55 so far this year with 20 accepted. Transfers are also being received from The BMJ (5). This year has already recorded the highest number of published articles (77 to date).

Journal content is increasingly cited and some manuscripts are highly cited: for example six articles have received more than 20 citations. The estimated impact factor of 2.8 is higher than the median 2.6 for the sector.

The journal continues to exert significant interest beyond simple scientific citations, for example the Journal received more than 700 mentions on Altmetric. The journal is now achieving 50,000 full text downloads per month and has registered 240,000 page views. There is a truly global reach of the Journals users with the UK, USA, India, Australia, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia all being in the top ten.

The appointment of Dr Matt Pavitt (Royal Brompton Hospital) to the editorial board as Social Media Editor in late 2018 has significantly increased the social media profile of the journal, which now has 5022 followers on Twitter.

Links between BMJ Open Respiratory Research and Thorax have further strengthened and an increasing number of high-quality manuscripts that do not meet the stringent publication requirements for Thorax are transferred to BMJ Open Respiratory Research. Both sets of editors continue to work closely together on the publication of research protocols, which are peer-reviewed by the Thorax team and published rapidly online in BMJ Open Respiratory Research. Summaries of BTS Guidelines are now regularly published in an open access form by BMJ Open Respiratory Research alongside publication of the full guideline in Thorax. BTS Quality Standards are increasingly published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research and are widely accessed and downloaded.

Steve Chapman & Matt Wise, Editors-in-Chief

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