SchaferAutismReport: Two And A Half Years On And Still No Verdict On MMR Scare

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Two And A Half Years On

And Still No Verdict On MMR Scare

The GMC's case against Wakefield has cost over £1m – so far.

By nce, independent.co.uk. is.gd/6lvKf

Wakefield, the doctor

who sparked the biggest health scare of the decade over the safety of

measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, has broken a second record.

The hearing into the disciplinary case

against him brought by the General Medical Council has become the longest

and most

EPA

Dr Wakefield: verdict is likely

to reheat the row he began

complex in the

organisation's 148-year history with costs well in excess of £1m.

Preliminary verdicts on the

" facts " of the case are expected this month, more than

two-and-a-half years after the case began in July 2007. Hearings were

initially scheduled for 64 days and the case was expected to conclude by

November 2007.

Instead, it has run for 166 days so far (up

to 19 November). The panel sat for an undisclosed number of days in

December and a further 19 days of hearings have been scheduled during January.

Extra dates have been set aside from April to June 2010, if required.

Dr Wakefield is accused, along with two

colleagues, of breaching ethical guidelines in the

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