Based on the papers given at a conference organised by the Health and Health Care Research Centre, this volume consists of: Health care in inner city areas (Brian Jarman); Primary health care in London; needs, resources and equity (Martin A. Powell); Commercial medicine and the NHS in South-east England; the shape of things to come (John Mohan); "You can never get another health'; health perceptions and experiences from East London (John Eyles and Jenny Donovan). -J.Sheail