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Summer Meeting 2026

The Summer Meeting 2026 will open for bookings in January. Details on abstract submission will be available in January.

Summer Meeting Abstracts

The abstract system for the BTS Summer Meeting 2026 is now open. The submission deadline is 23:59 on 16 March 2026.

Abstract Prizes

We welcome abstracts that provide measured improvements to patient care and that highlight multi-professional projects (big and small). We ask that your abstract demonstrates some of the following:

  • Use of QI methodology to support an evidence-based change in patient care.
  • Models of education that have delivered training in your service to encourage best practice.
  • Innovative integrated care solutions where you are working collaboratively across traditional NHS boundaries.
  • Innovative use of digital technology.

Following a submission and refereeing process, the top 12 abstracts will be selected to compete for a BTS Prize. These short-listed abstracts will be delivered as oral presentations during 2 specific sessions at the Summer Meeting on Thursday 9 July. The presentations will be judged on the day, and prizes will be awarded.

A number of abstracts not selected to compete for a prize will be invited to submit a digital poster, which will be displayed in the exhibition hall and on the conference App.

Read the abstract submission criteria

Clinical Grand Round

The Clinical Grand Round competition has been one of the highlights of the Summer Meeting programme for many years, and it remains a very closely contested event, which enhances the CV of any specialist trainee, nurse or AHP who is shortlisted and/or wins.

The competition is not open to post CCT doctors, but we welcome applications from all other members of the respiratory team, wherever they are based.

The best three submissions, as judged by members of the BTS Education and Training Committee, will be shortlisted and the authors invited to present their cases during the Clinical Grand Round symposium at the Meeting on Thursday 9 July.

Read the Clinical Grand Round Submission Criteria

 

Submit an abstract

How to book

Bookings will open in January 2026.

All individual bookings need to create an account on our website prior to booking.

If you wish to make a group booking, or book on behalf of someone else, please see the Group Booking information below.

All delegates are asked to read the booking conditions.

The British Thoracic Society gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of all companies who purchase an exhibition stand at the Summer and Winter Meetings. Sponsorship fees have been used directly to support the delivery of the event including the cost of venue hire, audio-visual, catering, and general conference administration. No sponsorship fees are used towards prizes or social events. None of them have any input into the programme content or the planning of the conference. Furthermore, the Society does not allow any sponsored symposia at this event, within the programme, or associated in any way with it. The full list of sponsors and company information may be found in the final programme.

To exhibit at BTS Meetings and Short Courses, companies must first be accepted as a BTS Approved Exhibitor. For further information, including Exhibitor Prospectuses and floor plans, please see our exhibit at a BTS Meeting page.

Delegates will be given access to the video recordings of the presentations for the days that they have booked.

The British Thoracic Society gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of all companies who purchase an exhibition stand at the Summer and Winter Meetings. Sponsorship fees are used directly to support the delivery of the event. No sponsorship fees are used towards prizes or social events. None of them have any input into the programme content or the planning of the conference. Furthermore, the Society does not allow any sponsored symposia at this event, within the programme, or associated in any way with it. The full list of sponsors and company information may be found in the final programme.