The following papers are just some of those submitted or scheduled to appear in Volume 1:

• Hospitals in the 21st Century: Who exactly is the customer, what do they want and how do we get to provide it better than anyone else?
  
• Commissioning for health and wellbeing in England: Strategic commissioning, market management and the prospects for effective service procurement
  
• Economics of health organisations
  
• Exploring the future, reality and extent of marketing in the NHS
  
• The future of primary care
  
• Cancer treatment – Who will afford the treatments of the future? 
  
• Health policy developments: Reforms and effects of reforms in Europe
  
• Managing diabetes prevention
  
• An update on healthcare technologies
  
• The electronic medical record and information and communication technology innovation
  
• Supply chain management in healthcare
  
• NHS Funding – post 2008: What will this mean for healthcare consumers?
  
• The impact of healthcare buildings on their users and on healing outcomes
  
• Value-added cost-effective diagnostic services in primary care
  
• Debate Piece: Commissioning: Will the involvement of private sector providers provide the spur to the improvement of productivity and output required by the NHS?
  
• Case study: How to effect sustainable change in financial performance in a hospital setting
  
• Case study: Lessons from the first waves of ISTC procurement
  
• Regular section: Policy retrospective