Academics, students, journalists, campaigners and health workers are invited to submit abstracts for papers or posters to be presented at a conference on healthcare to be held in the UK, entitled "Condition Critical: Health care, marketising reforms and the media."

The conference, to be held June 17 to 20 in Coventry University, UK, will address six main themes. Abstracts can be related to any one of these themes:

• The impact of the credit crunch
• Primary care
• Acute hospital care
• Public health
• Media coverage of health and health policy, and the public right to know
• Elderly care and mental health: Markets v Equity

Abstracts should be no more than 200 words, identify which theme the paper will address, and be accompanied by a brief note on the author(s), and their academic or professional affiliation.
Abstracts should be submitted for peer-review online by midnight on March 30 at http://www.healthp.org/abstracts/.

Authors will be notified by April 18 whether or not their proposals or posters have been accepted for presentation at the conference. Authors whose papers are accepted will be expected to present their work in person at the conference in Coventry. Completed papers received by June 5 will be printed in the collected conference papers.

For more information about the conference and guidelines for registration and submission, click here.