TY - JOUR T1 - Screensavers JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 492 LP - 492 DO - 10.3399/bjgp14X681625 VL - 64 IS - 627 AU - Euan Lawson Y1 - 2014/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/64/627/492.abstract N2 - Screening is often held up to the general population as ‘a good thing’, rivalled only by apple pie and motherhood, but many GPs will, as Mant alludes to in his editorial this month on health checks and screening, have reservations at some level. Screening and cardiovascular health feature strongly in the BJGP this month and we present research that will inform debate on the best approaches. NHS Health Checks are explored further in the Debate & Analysis article by Dalton and colleagues but Mant suggests that ‘this NHS preventive flagship merits scuttling because it’s unfit for purpose.’Perhaps some GPs feel in their bones, without being able to name it, the pull of ‘quaternary prevention’. This is defined by … ER -