EDITOR,—Stephen Gillam and colleagues' editorial on the recording of health promotion activity arrives at a broadly correct conclusion by a route that ignores the present political context of the discredited banding scheme in general practice.1 General practitioners began to see the need to offer health promotion to their patients during the 1980s, and some exciting developments followed, in the best tradition of general practice. Unfortunately, 1990 saw the introduction of the “10 patients …