Deconstructing the welfare state : managing healthcare in the age of reform

1. Deconstructing the welfare state : undoing 'one of the greatest achievements in history'? -- 2. Deconstructing the NHS : the changing roles of junior and middle managers -- 3. Exploring NHS work : a critical-action perspective -- 4. Ready to do business : management and organizational change in an acute trust -- 5. Contested culture : managerial work in an ambulance trust -- 6. Staying afloat : negotiating change at a mental health trust -- 7. When organizations disappear : deconstructing management at a primary care trust -- 8. Managing the impossible : the challenges of organizational change in the NHS.