Posted on 07/07/2002 3:14:48 PM PDT by PatriotReporter
By Celia Hall, Medical Editor
(Filed: 03/07/2002)
Doctors voted yesterday to abandon a system of payments for vaccination targets, which they say destroy their credibility with patients, and could contribute to a feared epidemic of measles.
In a deal introduced 12 years ago, GPs can earn £2,865 extra if 90 per cent of the children on their list are vaccinated or £955 if 70 per cent are vaccinated.
But since the controversy over the MMR triple jab, with many parents fearing that it can lead to bowel disease and autism, the doctors want a new payment system.
MMR vaccination levels have fallen to 84 per cent and as low as 73 per cent in some areas. GPs told the British Medical Association conference in Harrogate, North Yorks, that they should not be put in the position of bullying patients into having their children vaccinated.
Dr Richard Vautry, a Leeds GP, said that two weeks ago he had sat in his surgery with his son waiting for his booster injection of MMR. "I was there to ensure that my son had the best possible protection against measles mumps and rubella and I believe that MMR is the best way to protect our children from these dreadful diseases.
"However, yesterday I met with one of my one patients who is yet to be convinced. She is a sensible mum who wants nothing but the best for her child, but she still needs a little more time to think about whether she should bring her daughter for the MMR.
"She should be allowed that time. She shouldn't be pressured or bullied as a result of some diktat from a Whitehall civil servant."
Dr Vautry said that the target system failed in that situation. "Surely patients have a right to say no. Surely patients of young children have the right to make an informed decision and surely GPs should not be penalised as a result of the decisions their patients make." He said he refused to pressurise his patients however much money he might lose. "For if I did my patients would start to wonder whether my advice could be trusted as they could see that I have a vested interest in reaching a target."
The doctors also heard that there was an alternative to target payments which is being negotiated as part of the new GP contract.
Dr Hamish Meldrum, joint deputy chairman of the association's GPs' committee, said they had proposed a system of "informed dissent" in which an informed patient who decided against vaccination would not be included in a revised target list.
He said later that just as patients understood the idea of informed consent there should also be a system in which they could refuse treatment.
"Patients don't want to deprive their doctors of income because they don't want their child immunised. The majority of parents just want to exercise parental choice.
"I fully support MMR and I am convinced of its safety but I don't think I want the Government to make it mandatory.
He said that GPs were so convinced of the value of MMR that they would strive to have as few informed dissenters as possible.
Dr Joan Black, a GP from West Berkshire, told the conference that it was easy to understand a patient's fears.
"Target payments are an inappropriate way to run a service in a free society. Patients must be aware of a conflict of interest when their doctor stands to lose or gain a substantial sum of money depending on what the patient decides to do."
I actually have quite a bit ( you have to hunt for it among the links, and use the "links within those links" ) about vaccination & biowarfare here:
Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II
Feel free to copy, retransmit, or otherwise use anything you wish.
backhoe
You don't suppose that would include members of Congress, do you? Their families? Girlfriends?
What are you talking about.
This is nutcase leftist conspiracy nonsense that is not ever needed but especially not needed now.
One, I doubt your facts.
Second, whatever accuracy there may be to your psychotic claims, it is like someone in WWII saying, A-Ha - those tank makers got a monopoly that's what it is all about.
You guys need to grow up and get a dose of reality quick or go play somewhere else.
By Nick Farrell [28-06-2002]
Google et al provide 'unsafe' advice on vaccination Information found by internet search engines is biased against the vaccination of children, according to a survey. A report published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood journal shows that the top 10 results from popular search site Google all referred to anti-vaccination sites.
Many of them purported to give both sides of the argument, but very few of them did, the BBC reported.
More than 55 per cent of adults with internet access use the web for health information, and some doctors are concerned that official sites run by governments or expert groups have equal status with those set up by people with no medical qualifications.
Researchers from the University of Sydney typed the words 'vaccination' and 'immunisation' into seven search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista.
In total, 43 per cent of the links led to anti-vaccination sites, including what the researchers described as "quasi-official" sites with referenced material from medical journals.
Others were personal testimonies, 'back to nature' appeals and sites alleging cover-ups and conspiracies involving doctors, governments and pharmaceutical companies.
Lead researcher Professor Simon Chapman told the BBC: "Many of them referred to the medical literature, but not in a way which was coherent or comprehensive."
He explained that the most disturbing aspect is that a parent going to the web to search out information is going to have a very high probability of arriving at such a site.
"They look authoritative and they have a lot of information, but many of them are really very irresponsible," concluded the professor.
Let's say you had the money...whatever the cost, to get vaccinated right now.
Who should one contact? Does anyone have a phone number or website?
just set back and Watch how it done first the report, next the Media ,Tv, news,newspappers
Initially in the post 9/11 confusion, the CDC and other experts stated that the side effects were too dangerous -- anywhere from 1 to 6 people per million vaccinated could die..
I don't kown if you will like this one?
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