A Bramhope couple is concerned for the health of their three-year-old son after being caught up in the private clinic MMR scandal.

The parents, who not wish to be named, are among thousands who opted to give their child the separate MMR injections at a Sheffield clinic - which was closed in February.

Their son, Euan, has only received two of the three injections and his parents want him to receive the third Rubella jab separately but are now being urged by their GP to give him the full MMR jab.

The 34-year-old mother says she feels cheated.

"We didn't want him to have the MMR jab," she said.

"We wanted him to have the separate ones. We just thought it was best to have them separately rather than three at once.

"We have spoken to our doctor and he has told us to have the MMR.

"We didn't want to do this in the first place and now we are in a bit of a quandary whether or not he is immunised for the first two - and if he is then we don't want him to have the booster or the MMR jab.

"He will have to have blood tests to check whether he is or isn't immunised.

"We have not been told if he has been affected. We only heard about the scandal at the Sheffield clinic on the news. We have never had any letter.

"My doctor has told me separate jabs are not available, because I would have preferred him to do it.

There is a lot of concern about the MMR and I don't trust it, I just wanted him to have it for piece of mind. I feel cheated."

They do not know if their son is immunised or not and have received no communication from the clinic.

Euan was given the measles vaccination last August and the mumps jab in November but when he came to have the third rubella jab the clinic had closed down.

A two-year-old boy from Rawdon is also affected.

Dr David Salisbury, of the Immunisation and Communicable Disease Team, is urging all parents who were given separate jabs at the Hillsborough Arena in Sheffield to give their child the MMR jab.

"Further information has become available that aberrant reconstitution and administration practices were undertaken at these clinics before June 2002," he said.

"Also, anyone who was immunised at these clinics could have been immunised by a non standard procedure.

"The advice now is that all previous patients who received measles and/or mumps and/or rubella vaccine/s at these clinics should be immunised with MMR vaccine.

"This should be given according to current national recommendations. The present estimate is that this could involve up to 40,000 immunisations going back over a 10 year period.

"Earlier this year a problem was identified at immunisation clinics held by Lifeline Care Limited they have now closed as they were not registered with the National Care Standards Commission.

"The clinics had been offering the vaccines on a private basis to children from a large catchment area in the south and also the north of England."

Some parents are concerned at possible side effects from the jab from the low risk of them suffering an allergic reaction to fears that it could be linked to inflammatory bowel disease or autism.