DiNCQUMGP (Divisions National Consortium for the Quality Use of Medicines in General Practice) reports on a collaboration between doctors, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and medicine users to manage polypharmacy (prescribing multiple medicines to a patient) amongst older people. We have reported the outcomes of our collaboration (improving the Quality Use of Medicines) elsewhere. Here we discuss how we worked together, opened up new opportunities, and learned from one another. The first part of this article outlines a constructive new way of thinking about collaborating, that we argue is fundamentally different from current approaches. The second part describes what we did in the words of those involved.
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