Rob Flynn is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford.

`This is a book of interest not only to academics but to practitioners who enjoy the stimulation of different perspectives through which to view their daily practice.' - Health Service Journal

• Chapter 1 Restructuring health services; Chapter 2 Ritual and liminality; Chapter 3 Administration or management?; Chapter 4 Budgeting and the costs of medical autonomy; Chapter 5 Assuring performance, quality and standards; Chapter 6 Cutback management; Chapter 7 Marketisation and management in the National Health Service; Chapter 8 Structures of control in health management;

Rob Flynn is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford.

`This is a book of interest not only to academics but to practitioners who enjoy the stimulation of different perspectives through which to view their daily practice.' - Health Service Journal

• Chapter 1 Restructuring health services; Chapter 2 Ritual and liminality; Chapter 3 Administration or management?; Chapter 4 Budgeting and the costs of medical autonomy; Chapter 5 Assuring performance, quality and standards; Chapter 6 Cutback management; Chapter 7 Marketisation and management in the National Health Service; Chapter 8 Structures of control in health management;

Rob Flynn is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford.

`This is a book of interest not only to academics but to practitioners who enjoy the stimulation of different perspectives through which to view their daily practice.' - Health Service Journal

• Chapter 1 Restructuring health services; Chapter 2 Ritual and liminality; Chapter 3 Administration or management?; Chapter 4 Budgeting and the costs of medical autonomy; Chapter 5 Assuring performance, quality and standards; Chapter 6 Cutback management; Chapter 7 Marketisation and management in the National Health Service; Chapter 8 Structures of control in health management;