But what has happened, both good and bad, to those marques illustrates well the problems that Saab faces.Saab is a company based on innovation, on doing things differently from others because the different way might be better. We’re inundated with queries from anxious parents, and the Government needs to make sure we have the information to pass on The phone calls this morning from parents were continuous.. And there’s no mercury in this one.But it really does need to be handled quite smartly, because there are going to be a lot of anxious parents over the launch of this five-in-one. All we’re talking about here is continuing improvements in standards; that’s what this new vaccination will do. It’s much better if the polio vaccine is no longer in a separate, active vaccine, when there remains a small risk you can catch polio if you change a nappy and aren’t protected yourself.

And removing the mercury-based element is another step forward. But there’s been a failure to release information in an orderly and managed fashion.DR TERRY JOHN GP in Walthamstow, east London, and member of British Medical Association’s GP’s committeeIt seems to me [five-in-one] is a neat and tidy way of doing things [but] it was predictable there would be some kind of worry about overloading children with vaccines. The communications system is appalling for professionals who are not given advance warning of these stories before they blow up, and then have to advise the public. Why don’t the powers-that-be let healthcare professionals know what is going on? By the time the DoH machinery gets into gear, it will be too late because people will already have made up their mind.KATE HOWIE member of the RCN Practice Nurses’ Association national committee, and practice nurse trainer for Northamptonshire PCTThe vaccine is a good idea, because you’re getting rid of the live polio and popping it all into one vaccine; it brings the chances of contracting polio down to virtually nil. More should have been done by the Department of Health to prepare for it. Afterwards I felt I’d just gone along with it all without thinking much about it. So with Gabriella I weighed up the pros and cons and delayed her having any jabs until she was 15 months – it wasn’t worth the risk.

Do they really need these injections that early? If they’re a bit older, their system has a better chance to cope with it.DR GILLIAN BRAUNOLD GP in Kilburn, north LondonWe as a society have signed up to immunisation and we want to protect our children from dying unnecessarily from diseases we can prevent. I am concerned that we do not end up in another situation like MMR.”PARENTS’ AND DOCTORS’ VIEWSMARILYN SMITH from Harrow, mother of Daniel, 11, and Gabriella, 7I totally disagree with this – I’m appalled These tiny babies have undeveloped immune systems No child of mine would have five vaccines in one go. Daniel had his MMR when he was 12 months old and lost all his hair. I’m convinced it was from his injection, and that changed my mind about vaccines. Around half of babies given the current pertussis vaccine, which contains the entire whooping cough organism, suffer from sore arms and an increase in temperature in the 48 hours after they are immunised.The new version is inactivated and only 35 per cent of children have any reaction.