Doctor fights GMC on MMR vaccine

[Guest guest]

Sheri and everyone else,

This is the doctor my friend was involved with. She helped start the

Desumo clinic but has pulled out for now, due to her pregnancy (she has

pelvic problems).

I decided to help support this issue because although I dont want

vaccinations for Ruby anymore, I strongly believe in the right for choice

and if parents have made an informed decision to have the single jabs, then,

who am I or anyone else to stop them. I also think it is a great opportunity

for me to get the info out to parents about the dangers of alot of vaccines.

I send web addresses back to them once they have emailed me their support or

emailed me to ask for single vaccine phone numbers.

So, I am campaigning with , Desumo, (the MP) etc. to get

emails/letters of support for this doctor and the " Right for Choice " and we

plan to take them all to the GMC HEARING which has been postponed til the

26TH SEPTEMBER now.

We have even had a letter of support from Dr. Yazbak and his daughter!

As I mentioned before, amyone wanting to support this issue ,just email me

privately telling me so and I will add it to the growing pile we have.

Sue, Ruby(2)

Wales,UK

[Guest guest]

Sheri and everyone else,

This is the doctor my friend was involved with. She helped start the

Desumo clinic but has pulled out for now, due to her pregnancy (she has

pelvic problems).

I decided to help support this issue because although I dont want

vaccinations for Ruby anymore, I strongly believe in the right for choice

and if parents have made an informed decision to have the single jabs, then,

who am I or anyone else to stop them. I also think it is a great opportunity

for me to get the info out to parents about the dangers of alot of vaccines.

I send web addresses back to them once they have emailed me their support or

emailed me to ask for single vaccine phone numbers.

So, I am campaigning with , Desumo, (the MP) etc. to get

emails/letters of support for this doctor and the " Right for Choice " and we

plan to take them all to the GMC HEARING which has been postponed til the

26TH SEPTEMBER now.

We have even had a letter of support from Dr. Yazbak and his daughter!

As I mentioned before, amyone wanting to support this issue ,just email me

privately telling me so and I will add it to the growing pile we have.

Sue, Ruby(2)

Wales,UK

[Guest guest]

Sue, I support your efforts to help this doctor. First, he is really going

out on a limb for those parents and deserves our support. Second, most

people who have decided that there are no good vaccines did not get there

immediately, so anything which is happening which causes people to even

think about vaccine safety, let alone question it, is worth supporting.

Third, what many of us seek is informed consent (which means having good

information and choices), and that good doctor is providing a choice.(Many

of us believe that such good information would lead to not vaccinating, but

not everyone would agree.) Let me know if there is anything I can do.

Sandy from Alaska

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Re: Doctor fights GMC on MMR vaccine

Sheri and everyone else,

This is the doctor my friend was involved with. She helped start the

Desumo clinic but has pulled out for now, due to her pregnancy (she has

pelvic problems).

I decided to help support this issue because although I dont want

vaccinations for Ruby anymore, I strongly believe in the right for choice

and if parents have made an informed decision to have the single jabs, then,

who am I or anyone else to stop them. I also think it is a great opportunity

for me to get the info out to parents about the dangers of alot of vaccines.

I send web addresses back to them once they have emailed me their support or

emailed me to ask for single vaccine phone numbers.

So, I am campaigning with , Desumo, (the MP) etc. to get

emails/letters of support for this doctor and the " Right for Choice " and we

plan to take them all to the GMC HEARING which has been postponed til the

26TH SEPTEMBER now.

We have even had a letter of support from Dr. Yazbak and his daughter!

As I mentioned before, amyone wanting to support this issue ,just email me

privately telling me so and I will add it to the growing pile we have.

Sue, Ruby(2)

Wales,UK

[Guest guest]

Ahh, yes.

Still am opposed to single vaccines as well as MMR and frustrated that EVEN

HE doesn't tell parents of the dangers, as you know. But this lynching of

him is ludicrous.

All vaccines have the propensity to cause autism, other damage and death -

singles or combos.

Sheri

At 08:19 PM 08/25/2001 +0100, you wrote:

>

>Sheri and everyone else,

>This is the doctor my friend was involved with. She helped start the

>Desumo clinic but has pulled out for now, due to her pregnancy (she has

>pelvic problems).

>I decided to help support this issue because although I dont want

>vaccinations for Ruby anymore, I strongly believe in the right for choice

>and if parents have made an informed decision to have the single jabs, then,

>who am I or anyone else to stop them. I also think it is a great opportunity

>for me to get the info out to parents about the dangers of alot of vaccines.

>I send web addresses back to them once they have emailed me their support or

>emailed me to ask for single vaccine phone numbers.

>So, I am campaigning with , Desumo, (the MP) etc. to get

>emails/letters of support for this doctor and the " Right for Choice " and we

>plan to take them all to the GMC HEARING which has been postponed til the

>26TH SEPTEMBER now.

>We have even had a letter of support from Dr. Yazbak and his daughter!

>As I mentioned before, amyone wanting to support this issue ,just email me

>privately telling me so and I will add it to the growing pile we have.

>

>Sue, Ruby(2)

>Wales,UK

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, advised doctors that children should not be given separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR because there was a "clear risk of harm".

This particular genocidalist must be charged under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which also applies to the creator(s) of the bioengineered H1N1 flu virus, the WHO, UN, vaccine makers, all heads of governments intending to enforce mandatory vaccinations with experimental and, no doubt, deadly vaccines.

See Article 6 (Genocide) http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/icc/statute/part-a.htm

Ingrid

Article 6: Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

( Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Doctor fights GMC on MMR vaccine

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1336427/Doctor-fights-GMC-on-MMR-vaccine.html

By Lorraine FraserPublished: 12:01AM BST 05 Aug 2001

A DOCTOR who has been helping parents who have concerns about MMR vaccination by prescribing alternative injections for their children has been ordered to appear before the General Medical Council and could be barred from medical practice.

Mansfield, a former GP who has been seeing up to 70 families a time at twice-monthly private clinics in Worcestershire, was told last week that the council's rapid response Interim Orders Committee intended to consider his conduct because "it may pose an immediate risk to patient safety".

Related Articles

Conflict over autism study

'Chattering class endangers child lives over MMR'

MMR doctor links 170 cases of autism to vaccine

The GMC's unprecedented action will reignite the controversy over the safety of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination that researchers have said may be linked with childhood bowel disease and autism.

It goes to the heart of the row over whether worried parents should be allowed to choose single measles, mumps and rubella vaccines for their children instead of the combined jab. The Department of Health has withdrawn single measles vaccine from the NHS, leaving a handful of private clinics, importing it on a named patient basis, as the only source for parents in Britain.

The Interim Orders Committee of the GMC has the power to suspend a doctor's licence to practice for 18 months, impose restrictions and/or refer a case for a full hearing of the council.

A decision against Dr Mansfield would make it difficult for any other doctor to continue to offer the three vaccines separately. The case, which threatens to become a cause celebre, has important implications because it challenges doctors' freedom to prescribe the medicines they believe to be best for their patients.

Dr Mansfield told The Telegraph last night that he had asked for the GMC hearing, expected within the next few weeks, to be held in public. He said he would vigorously defend his right to prescribe the single vaccines to children where their parents wished it.

He said: "I am prepared to go the distance. I wouldn't have got involved if I didn't feel strongly that doctors are making a mistake here. Parents have a point and are entitled to their opinion."

The GMC's intervention follows a complaint from McCloskey, director of public health for Worcester Health Authority, alleging that Dr Mansfield has been putting children "at risk" because his actions are "outside normal clinical practice" and against DoH advice.

He urged the GMC in a letter to take quick action to stop Dr Mansfield's work with Desumo, a company set up by parents to provide single vaccines and which donates money to charities investigating vaccine safety.

The row over MMR erupted three years ago but intensified earlier this year when Dr Wakefield of the Royal Free Hospital revealed he had seen 170 children with a new syndrome of digestive problems and autistic behaviour, the "majority" of whom had fallen ill after the triple jab. He suggested that the safest option was for children to be given the vaccines separately.

His comments, in an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, outraged the medical establishment. The Department of Health dismissed the research as "bad science" and launched a £3 million campaign in January to reassure parents.

Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, advised doctors that children should not be given separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR because there was a "clear risk of harm".

MMR vaccination rates have continued to fall - so much so that public health officials have warned that a measles outbreak could result. Meanwhile, parents groups argue that the department's stance on single vaccines has presented families with a very difficult choice: to accept MMR or leave their child unprotected against the illness.

Dr Mansfield defended his conduct yesterday. "I advise parents who approach me of all the vaccination options available to them and detail all arguments for and against. I do not encourage parental concerns; these exist already, and deserve to be taken seriously," he said.

"The people who have come to us have denied their children MMR, in some cases as long as three years ago. The single measles vaccine I am prescribing is the best available for someone who is unwilling to have MMR. The Department of Health's view is a denial of choice.

"Giving parents no official option but MMR and pressuring them to accept it seems institutionally unprofessional - however, many professional bodies choose to endorse the practice."

Debbie Ryding, Desumo's founder, said that 600 families from all over Britain had attended the clinics, held at a hired day centre, since May. She said: "We set it up because we felt that parents needed to be able to choose. They should have all the information and then take it from there. Worcestershire Health Authority knew we were going to be doing it because I told them myself."

Parents attending the clinic pay £42 to register and receive an information pack. The cost of the vaccines is rubella, £35; measles, £50; and mumps, £45 - paid at the time of injection. Dr Mansfield provides telephone services for bookings and after care, but says he has no other financial interest in the company.

Leading medical bodies in Britain and around the world, including the World Health Organisation, support the use of the combined MMR vaccination.

[Guest guest]

Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, advised doctors that children should not be given separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR because there was a "clear risk of harm".

This particular genocidalist must be charged under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which also applies to the creator(s) of the bioengineered H1N1 flu virus, the WHO, UN, vaccine makers, all heads of governments intending to enforce mandatory vaccinations with experimental and, no doubt, deadly vaccines.

See Article 6 (Genocide) http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/icc/statute/part-a.htm

Ingrid

Article 6: Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

( Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Doctor fights GMC on MMR vaccine

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1336427/Doctor-fights-GMC-on-MMR-vaccine.html

By Lorraine FraserPublished: 12:01AM BST 05 Aug 2001

A DOCTOR who has been helping parents who have concerns about MMR vaccination by prescribing alternative injections for their children has been ordered to appear before the General Medical Council and could be barred from medical practice.

Mansfield, a former GP who has been seeing up to 70 families a time at twice-monthly private clinics in Worcestershire, was told last week that the council's rapid response Interim Orders Committee intended to consider his conduct because "it may pose an immediate risk to patient safety".

Related Articles

Conflict over autism study

'Chattering class endangers child lives over MMR'

MMR doctor links 170 cases of autism to vaccine

The GMC's unprecedented action will reignite the controversy over the safety of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination that researchers have said may be linked with childhood bowel disease and autism.

It goes to the heart of the row over whether worried parents should be allowed to choose single measles, mumps and rubella vaccines for their children instead of the combined jab. The Department of Health has withdrawn single measles vaccine from the NHS, leaving a handful of private clinics, importing it on a named patient basis, as the only source for parents in Britain.

The Interim Orders Committee of the GMC has the power to suspend a doctor's licence to practice for 18 months, impose restrictions and/or refer a case for a full hearing of the council.

A decision against Dr Mansfield would make it difficult for any other doctor to continue to offer the three vaccines separately. The case, which threatens to become a cause celebre, has important implications because it challenges doctors' freedom to prescribe the medicines they believe to be best for their patients.

Dr Mansfield told The Telegraph last night that he had asked for the GMC hearing, expected within the next few weeks, to be held in public. He said he would vigorously defend his right to prescribe the single vaccines to children where their parents wished it.

He said: "I am prepared to go the distance. I wouldn't have got involved if I didn't feel strongly that doctors are making a mistake here. Parents have a point and are entitled to their opinion."

The GMC's intervention follows a complaint from McCloskey, director of public health for Worcester Health Authority, alleging that Dr Mansfield has been putting children "at risk" because his actions are "outside normal clinical practice" and against DoH advice.

He urged the GMC in a letter to take quick action to stop Dr Mansfield's work with Desumo, a company set up by parents to provide single vaccines and which donates money to charities investigating vaccine safety.

The row over MMR erupted three years ago but intensified earlier this year when Dr Wakefield of the Royal Free Hospital revealed he had seen 170 children with a new syndrome of digestive problems and autistic behaviour, the "majority" of whom had fallen ill after the triple jab. He suggested that the safest option was for children to be given the vaccines separately.

His comments, in an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, outraged the medical establishment. The Department of Health dismissed the research as "bad science" and launched a £3 million campaign in January to reassure parents.

Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, advised doctors that children should not be given separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR because there was a "clear risk of harm".

MMR vaccination rates have continued to fall - so much so that public health officials have warned that a measles outbreak could result. Meanwhile, parents groups argue that the department's stance on single vaccines has presented families with a very difficult choice: to accept MMR or leave their child unprotected against the illness.

Dr Mansfield defended his conduct yesterday. "I advise parents who approach me of all the vaccination options available to them and detail all arguments for and against. I do not encourage parental concerns; these exist already, and deserve to be taken seriously," he said.

"The people who have come to us have denied their children MMR, in some cases as long as three years ago. The single measles vaccine I am prescribing is the best available for someone who is unwilling to have MMR. The Department of Health's view is a denial of choice.

"Giving parents no official option but MMR and pressuring them to accept it seems institutionally unprofessional - however, many professional bodies choose to endorse the practice."

Debbie Ryding, Desumo's founder, said that 600 families from all over Britain had attended the clinics, held at a hired day centre, since May. She said: "We set it up because we felt that parents needed to be able to choose. They should have all the information and then take it from there. Worcestershire Health Authority knew we were going to be doing it because I told them myself."

Parents attending the clinic pay £42 to register and receive an information pack. The cost of the vaccines is rubella, £35; measles, £50; and mumps, £45 - paid at the time of injection. Dr Mansfield provides telephone services for bookings and after care, but says he has no other financial interest in the company.

Leading medical bodies in Britain and around the world, including the World Health Organisation, support the use of the combined MMR vaccination.

[Guest guest]

Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, advised doctors that children should not be given separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR because there was a "clear risk of harm".

This particular genocidalist must be charged under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which also applies to the creator(s) of the bioengineered H1N1 flu virus, the WHO, UN, vaccine makers, all heads of governments intending to enforce mandatory vaccinations with experimental and, no doubt, deadly vaccines.

See Article 6 (Genocide) http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/icc/statute/part-a.htm

Ingrid

Article 6: Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

( Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Doctor fights GMC on MMR vaccine

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1336427/Doctor-fights-GMC-on-MMR-vaccine.html

By Lorraine FraserPublished: 12:01AM BST 05 Aug 2001

A DOCTOR who has been helping parents who have concerns about MMR vaccination by prescribing alternative injections for their children has been ordered to appear before the General Medical Council and could be barred from medical practice.

Mansfield, a former GP who has been seeing up to 70 families a time at twice-monthly private clinics in Worcestershire, was told last week that the council's rapid response Interim Orders Committee intended to consider his conduct because "it may pose an immediate risk to patient safety".

Related Articles

Conflict over autism study

'Chattering class endangers child lives over MMR'

MMR doctor links 170 cases of autism to vaccine

The GMC's unprecedented action will reignite the controversy over the safety of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination that researchers have said may be linked with childhood bowel disease and autism.

It goes to the heart of the row over whether worried parents should be allowed to choose single measles, mumps and rubella vaccines for their children instead of the combined jab. The Department of Health has withdrawn single measles vaccine from the NHS, leaving a handful of private clinics, importing it on a named patient basis, as the only source for parents in Britain.

The Interim Orders Committee of the GMC has the power to suspend a doctor's licence to practice for 18 months, impose restrictions and/or refer a case for a full hearing of the council.

A decision against Dr Mansfield would make it difficult for any other doctor to continue to offer the three vaccines separately. The case, which threatens to become a cause celebre, has important implications because it challenges doctors' freedom to prescribe the medicines they believe to be best for their patients.

Dr Mansfield told The Telegraph last night that he had asked for the GMC hearing, expected within the next few weeks, to be held in public. He said he would vigorously defend his right to prescribe the single vaccines to children where their parents wished it.

He said: "I am prepared to go the distance. I wouldn't have got involved if I didn't feel strongly that doctors are making a mistake here. Parents have a point and are entitled to their opinion."

The GMC's intervention follows a complaint from McCloskey, director of public health for Worcester Health Authority, alleging that Dr Mansfield has been putting children "at risk" because his actions are "outside normal clinical practice" and against DoH advice.

He urged the GMC in a letter to take quick action to stop Dr Mansfield's work with Desumo, a company set up by parents to provide single vaccines and which donates money to charities investigating vaccine safety.

The row over MMR erupted three years ago but intensified earlier this year when Dr Wakefield of the Royal Free Hospital revealed he had seen 170 children with a new syndrome of digestive problems and autistic behaviour, the "majority" of whom had fallen ill after the triple jab. He suggested that the safest option was for children to be given the vaccines separately.

His comments, in an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, outraged the medical establishment. The Department of Health dismissed the research as "bad science" and launched a £3 million campaign in January to reassure parents.

Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, advised doctors that children should not be given separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR because there was a "clear risk of harm".

MMR vaccination rates have continued to fall - so much so that public health officials have warned that a measles outbreak could result. Meanwhile, parents groups argue that the department's stance on single vaccines has presented families with a very difficult choice: to accept MMR or leave their child unprotected against the illness.

Dr Mansfield defended his conduct yesterday. "I advise parents who approach me of all the vaccination options available to them and detail all arguments for and against. I do not encourage parental concerns; these exist already, and deserve to be taken seriously," he said.

"The people who have come to us have denied their children MMR, in some cases as long as three years ago. The single measles vaccine I am prescribing is the best available for someone who is unwilling to have MMR. The Department of Health's view is a denial of choice.

"Giving parents no official option but MMR and pressuring them to accept it seems institutionally unprofessional - however, many professional bodies choose to endorse the practice."

Debbie Ryding, Desumo's founder, said that 600 families from all over Britain had attended the clinics, held at a hired day centre, since May. She said: "We set it up because we felt that parents needed to be able to choose. They should have all the information and then take it from there. Worcestershire Health Authority knew we were going to be doing it because I told them myself."

Parents attending the clinic pay £42 to register and receive an information pack. The cost of the vaccines is rubella, £35; measles, £50; and mumps, £45 - paid at the time of injection. Dr Mansfield provides telephone services for bookings and after care, but says he has no other financial interest in the company.

Leading medical bodies in Britain and around the world, including the World Health Organisation, support the use of the combined MMR vaccination.

[Guest guest]

Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, advised doctors that children should not be given separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR because there was a "clear risk of harm".

This particular genocidalist must be charged under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which also applies to the creator(s) of the bioengineered H1N1 flu virus, the WHO, UN, vaccine makers, all heads of governments intending to enforce mandatory vaccinations with experimental and, no doubt, deadly vaccines.

See Article 6 (Genocide) http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/icc/statute/part-a.htm

Ingrid

Article 6: Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

( Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Doctor fights GMC on MMR vaccine

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1336427/Doctor-fights-GMC-on-MMR-vaccine.html

By Lorraine FraserPublished: 12:01AM BST 05 Aug 2001

A DOCTOR who has been helping parents who have concerns about MMR vaccination by prescribing alternative injections for their children has been ordered to appear before the General Medical Council and could be barred from medical practice.

Mansfield, a former GP who has been seeing up to 70 families a time at twice-monthly private clinics in Worcestershire, was told last week that the council's rapid response Interim Orders Committee intended to consider his conduct because "it may pose an immediate risk to patient safety".

Related Articles

Conflict over autism study

'Chattering class endangers child lives over MMR'

MMR doctor links 170 cases of autism to vaccine

The GMC's unprecedented action will reignite the controversy over the safety of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination that researchers have said may be linked with childhood bowel disease and autism.

It goes to the heart of the row over whether worried parents should be allowed to choose single measles, mumps and rubella vaccines for their children instead of the combined jab. The Department of Health has withdrawn single measles vaccine from the NHS, leaving a handful of private clinics, importing it on a named patient basis, as the only source for parents in Britain.

The Interim Orders Committee of the GMC has the power to suspend a doctor's licence to practice for 18 months, impose restrictions and/or refer a case for a full hearing of the council.

A decision against Dr Mansfield would make it difficult for any other doctor to continue to offer the three vaccines separately. The case, which threatens to become a cause celebre, has important implications because it challenges doctors' freedom to prescribe the medicines they believe to be best for their patients.

Dr Mansfield told The Telegraph last night that he had asked for the GMC hearing, expected within the next few weeks, to be held in public. He said he would vigorously defend his right to prescribe the single vaccines to children where their parents wished it.

He said: "I am prepared to go the distance. I wouldn't have got involved if I didn't feel strongly that doctors are making a mistake here. Parents have a point and are entitled to their opinion."

The GMC's intervention follows a complaint from McCloskey, director of public health for Worcester Health Authority, alleging that Dr Mansfield has been putting children "at risk" because his actions are "outside normal clinical practice" and against DoH advice.

He urged the GMC in a letter to take quick action to stop Dr Mansfield's work with Desumo, a company set up by parents to provide single vaccines and which donates money to charities investigating vaccine safety.

The row over MMR erupted three years ago but intensified earlier this year when Dr Wakefield of the Royal Free Hospital revealed he had seen 170 children with a new syndrome of digestive problems and autistic behaviour, the "majority" of whom had fallen ill after the triple jab. He suggested that the safest option was for children to be given the vaccines separately.

His comments, in an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, outraged the medical establishment. The Department of Health dismissed the research as "bad science" and launched a £3 million campaign in January to reassure parents.

Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, advised doctors that children should not be given separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in place of MMR because there was a "clear risk of harm".

MMR vaccination rates have continued to fall - so much so that public health officials have warned that a measles outbreak could result. Meanwhile, parents groups argue that the department's stance on single vaccines has presented families with a very difficult choice: to accept MMR or leave their child unprotected against the illness.

Dr Mansfield defended his conduct yesterday. "I advise parents who approach me of all the vaccination options available to them and detail all arguments for and against. I do not encourage parental concerns; these exist already, and deserve to be taken seriously," he said.

"The people who have come to us have denied their children MMR, in some cases as long as three years ago. The single measles vaccine I am prescribing is the best available for someone who is unwilling to have MMR. The Department of Health's view is a denial of choice.

"Giving parents no official option but MMR and pressuring them to accept it seems institutionally unprofessional - however, many professional bodies choose to endorse the practice."

Debbie Ryding, Desumo's founder, said that 600 families from all over Britain had attended the clinics, held at a hired day centre, since May. She said: "We set it up because we felt that parents needed to be able to choose. They should have all the information and then take it from there. Worcestershire Health Authority knew we were going to be doing it because I told them myself."

Parents attending the clinic pay £42 to register and receive an information pack. The cost of the vaccines is rubella, £35; measles, £50; and mumps, £45 - paid at the time of injection. Dr Mansfield provides telephone services for bookings and after care, but says he has no other financial interest in the company.

Leading medical bodies in Britain and around the world, including the World Health Organisation, support the use of the combined MMR vaccination.