Dr. Peter Mansfield - (HCS 1954-61)
Peter Mansfield, Head Boy in 1961, is a doctor who has been offering parents alternative injections to the controversial MMR vaccine for their children. He was summoned before the General Medical Council in a test case over the rights of patients and doctors. We understand that the case has now been dropped.
Peter risked suspension and, ultimately being barred from practice if the body that polices the profession said he had acted in a way that risks the safety of patients.
He has helped hundreds of families determine whether they want their children to have separate rubella, measles and mumps vaccines, instead of the combined jab. The combined MMR injection has become the routine immunisation method for infants aged between 12 and 15 months, who are then given boosters before they go to school at five years old.
You can read about the Peter Mansfield case at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,532487,00.html
The GMC contact page is at: http://www.gmc-uk.org/global_sections/contact_frameset.htm
A photograph of Peter Mansfield in Scholarship Sixth Science in 1961 is at: http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/harrow_county/FormSVISc1961.htm
There has been some discussion of this case in the website guestbook/bulletin board.