article_snippet: In 2009, all children under five were invited to be vaccinated in a nationwide scheme.
article_snippet: Fortunately, the much-feared 2009-2010 outbreak never reached the pandemic scale expected.
article_snippet: the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme was set up to provide a clear, non-adversarial way of compensating people for damage from mass vaccination campaigns, meaning the government, not the manufacturer, ultimately foots the bill.
article_snippet: To date, no payment has been made in respect of immunisation against swine flu.
article_snippet: Over the past four years, the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme has not paid out anything.
article_snippet: Likewise, no payouts have been made to young girls who have apparently suffered damage from the HPV vaccine campaign against cervical cancer — despite the fact that, according to the MHRA, more than 300 schoolgirls a year are reporting serious side effects.
article_snippet: Claire’s lawyers, Hodge Jones & Allen, have 68 people in a narcolepsy class action — two-thirds were children when vaccinated.
article_snippet: Vaccination campaigns only work if sufficient people volunteer for Vaccination campaigns,’ Matt O’Neil of the charity Narcolepsy UK says.