Guest Editorial – Another straw for the camel’s back

Dr George Kassianos, RCGP Immunisation Lead and President of the British Global & Travel Health Association, documents recent ambitious changes to our immunisation programme and warns that, once again, GPs will be shouldering the main burden. 2013 will go down in history as the year that saw successive additions and sweeping changes to the UK’s national immunisation programme. Not since 2006, when we saw a radical change in the childhood vaccination schedule, has there been a year of so much flux. In June, we dropped the second priming dose of MenC at four months and replaced it with a booster