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Postmodern ideas have been vastly influential in the social sciences and beyond. However, their impact on the study of social policy has been minimal. Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare analyses the potential for a postmodern or cultural turn in welfare as it treats postmodernity as an evolving canon -from the seminal works of Baudrillard, Foucault and Lyotard, through to recent theories of the 'risk society'. Already disorientated by globalisation, new technologies and the years of new right ascendancy, welfare faces a significant challenge in the postmodern. It suggests that, rat

This article argues that there is a tension between the discourse of new public management and the discourse of equality of opportunity within the National Health Service (NHS). Equality policies within the NHS have tended to be regarded as being of marginal importance in comparison to budget control, while simultaneously stereotypical perceptions of ethnic minorities persist which have direct implications for patterns of promotion and recruitment in a management structure that has devolved responsibility for recruitment to line managers. The confinement of ethnic minority nursing staff to the least desirable specialities and grades has largely been unaltered by the introduction of equality policies and in fact has led to increased feelings of scepticism on their part. Of particular significance is the over-representation of ethnic minority nursing staff in disciplinary procedures which reinforces ethnocentric assumptions about minorities among mainly white managers within the NHS.

Social policy is just about the last social science subject to take the postmodern challenge, though we have seen a rash of contributions in recent months. These have proved catalytic but may have been presented in a manner that is careless as to the nature of welfare as a boundaried academic realm. These offerings have also illustrated the difficulties involved in splicing poststructural analysis with a historically structural subject. Equally, definitions of social policy generated within the welfare community may also act as a de facto barrier to the postmodern. Consequently we seem to have the makings of a non‐debate of incompatible analyses, making even the possibility of a "third position" a remote one. However, a sideways glance at the chronologically more advanced postmodernism–feminism debate offers some hope that a welfare‐adapted postmodernity may emerge in the future.

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