UK and Ireland Neuroendocrine Tumour Society [UKI NETS] came about in the year 2000 with a meeting of UK and Ireland neuroendocrine experts. At the time there was little interaction amongst the specialists with people working within their own small teams to manage these incredibly complex conditions. To compound matters there was a lack of evidence for treatments being used with no structure in place to deliver large scale trials. The UK-NETwork was created to meet these challenges. This later transformed in to UKI NETS.