[Towards a maximum vaccination calendar: Assessment of a strategy].

This year, 2015, marked 40 years since the first routine vaccination schedule was approved in Spain. Although the vaccination schedules in the various Autonomous Communities are currently based on that proposed by the Inter-regional Council of the National Health System (CISNS), the differences between them are obvious, not only in terms of the age bands in which particular doses are administered, but above all in the application of certain vaccines not included in that schedule. The Spanish Association of Paediatrics (AEP) has deemed it a priority objective to achieve a single maximum vaccination schedule, as the only way to maintain the principle of equity in preventive health care and to facilitate compliance with immunisations, both for children who move to a different Autonomous Community and in their place of residence. For this purpose, the AEP, through its Advisory Committee on Vaccines (CAV-AEP), as the representative and sole mouthpiece of all paediatric scientific societies on matters of vaccination, defends the right of children and adolescents to receive the best protective coverage against immunopreventable infectious diseases, according to unbiased scientific evidence, consistent with fairness and with the optimum cost-benefit ratio. In the AEP’s opinion, childhood preventive care ought to have pride of place in the State’s health budgets. The progress made in the last few years in advancing this line of action has not been without difficulties, which