mmunisations should be compulsory for all babies and children unless they have a specific condition that would make it dangerous, doctors were due to be told today.

The British Medical Association's Annual Representatives Meeting (ARM) in Harrogate yesterday voted to scrap GP target payments for vaccinations on the grounds that the controversy over the combined mumps, measles and rubella injection had made the system unworkable.

Despite Government insistence that the MMR injection is safe, campaigners against the triple vaccine claim that it could be linked to autism and bowel disorders.

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In light of this, a growing number of parents in the UK have rejected the triple jab and instead opted to give their children single vaccines through private clinics.

Today a set of motions has been tabled for discussion at the ARM calling for a full review of the principles of vaccination and immunisation.

They also call for a review of the advantages and disadvantages of mandatory childhood immunisation.

One motion proposed by the Liverpool Division of the BMA suggests that "baby and childhood vaccination should be compulsory for all unless there is clear contraindication."

During yesterday's debate Dr Richard Vankey a GP from Leeds said he believes the MMR jab is the best way to protect children and had taken his son for his injection recently.

But he would not pressurise patients to meet a target and he told the conference "surely patients have the right to say no."

Among the other issues due to be debated today is on doctors' working conditions in light of the Selby rail crash.

It calls on the Government to recognise that doctors unfit to drive home after a prolonged period of duty must also have been unfit to treat patients during the end of that duty.

The annual conference is also expected to discuss the need to ensure equal numbers of men and women are selected for entry into UK medical schools.

One motion tabled by the Bury division of the BMA asks admission tutors to "look favourable on male candidates before this endangered species becomes extinct."