Academic researcher Andrew Wakefield controlled Royal Free clinical services

This page is material from the award-winning investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London, the UK’s Channel 4 TV network and BMJ, the British Medical Journal, which exposed vaccine research fraudster Andrew Wakefield | Investigation summary

One of the central mysteries of the saga was how Andrew Wakefield, an academic researcher in the Royal Free's medical school, came to influence the hospital's department of paediatric gastroenterology - which was meant to be under the control of Professor John Walker-Smith. Holding a non-clinical contract, Wakefield was not authorised to admit or examine children. Yet, as the rubber-stamped notes on this page show, he was even credited with a "clinic", from which he launched his attack on MMR