We welcome the editorial by Professor Khunti on near-patient testing in general practice.1 He states that quality assurance is of utmost importance if near-patient testing is to be successfully implemented in general practice. We fully agree on this point. Moreover, he correctly concludes that near-patient testing has a number of potential benefits beyond patient satisfaction, although the full potential of its integration and implementation has not been exploited, while he specifically calls for rigorous evaluations to determine improvements in …