Customer turned commissioner

A study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at recent evidence of involving older people in commissioning health and social care. There's particular focus on the experience of programmes in Salford and Dorset. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has published a discussion paper on involvement, shared decision making and medicines, highlighting the gap between the rhetoric and the present reality. Meanwhile, the Health Foundation has launched a self management resource support centre, offering an introduction to the theory behind and evidence for self care. A study in Journal of Public Health assesses the merits of using discrete choice experiements to incorporate public views into healthcare priority setting.