Our Editor, in his comment on the White Paper ‘Our health, our care, our say’1 rightly points out that ‘the difficulty of provision for disadvantaged groups is a stain on the face of primary care.’ He later says that the proposition that life checks for all, as proposed in this government White Paper, are likely to be of marginal value.2 This might be true of the articulate worried well. However, some disadvantaged groups are very likely to benefit considerably from structured relevant health …