What do you think about the NHS Constitution? What do you think about the NHS Constitution ? If you are a clinician, is it relevant to your professional practice? If you are a patient, has it helped you understand and obtain your rights? If you are a manager, has it affected any of the decisions you have taken or the priorities you have set? Why do I want to know? Well, because yesterday I attended the inaugural meeting of the Future Forum which is asking these very questions. It was so refreshing to see the Future Forum concentrating on something beyond the Bill. Something that has cross-party support. Something that, if promoted and embedded, could make a real difference for staff and patients alike. The first stage of the Forum's work on the Constitution will be to assess people's awareness of it. Then we will look at whether its aspirations have yet been fulfilled. So tell me what you think, what your experience has been and I will feed in your comments. Thereafter we will ask the question: what should change in the constitution? I have some views on this, as you might imagine. Looking at the current version of the Constitution it seems to me to be a bit off the pace -- a bit passive -- when it comes to patient involvement. It speaks of the need to respect patients' dignity and their preferences but it does not say that as patients we have a right to share