Parents will have to provide proof their offspring have had a full range of vaccinations when they put in applications for primary schools.

The plan, designed to increase the take-up of the measles, mumps and rubella triple jab, has been drawn up by Mary Creagh, the Labour MP in charge of the party’s health manifesto for the next general election.

“Parents need to protect their children and science gives them a way to do that,” said Creagh. “We need to get that message across.”

However, doctors’ leaders warned that the idea was “morally dubious”.

Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association, said: “A Stalinist approach like this would be likely to backfire.”

Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, accused Labour of “playing politics” with children’s lives.

Take-up of the MMR jab fell dramatically after research – now discredited – appeared to show a link between the triple vaccination and autism.

From:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3909515.ece

Health Direct finds the latest labour “thinking” plain incredible. The highest proportion of children who do not have the vaccine live in inner London, so labour’s plans will compound the disadvantage that these children will endure.