Apologies for multiple postings. We advertised this conference recently on this list. (THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS FOURTH IMA CONFERENCE ON QUANTITATIVE MODELLING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH CARE 31 March - 2 April 2004 University of Salford, UK) To clarify the call for papers, we invite interested researchers to submit a title AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, followed by an abstract of 300-500 words to Lucy Nye at [log in to unmask] by 17 November 2003. The real deadline is for receipt of abstracts, but it is useful for us to know how many we are likely to get. Selected papers presented at the conference will be subject to normal refereeing procedures and subsequently published in Health Care Management Science. Prof Rose Baker