Mark Exworthy has been a Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of Southampton since 1991. His principal research interests relate to purchasing in the NHS, professional-managerial relations in primary and community care, and clinical audit. Susan Halford has been a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton for the past 5 years. Her recent research has involved in-depth investigations of the relationships between gender, organisation and identity. She is co-author (with Mike Savage and Anne Witz) of Gender, Careers and Organisations (1997) and has w...