Against compulsory MMR vaccination and for looking after new mothers

Prof Arne Akbar, president of the British Society for Immunology, says compulsory vaccination is a blunt tool which could increase health inequities and alienate parents. Plus Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard and others call for a funded postnatal medical appointment at six to eight weeks specifically to assess new mothers’ physical and mental health. The recent drop in childhood vaccination uptake is a cause of concern for all of us, as your article rightly points out ( No MMR should mean no sch