HPV and Cervical Cancer Update - Slough Secondary Schools

This article is brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Public Health Programme Officer, Timothy Howells, for the attention of secondary schools in Slough.

Thank you for your ongoing support of the school based vaccination programmes and ongoing work to promote the health of school children in Slough.

I wanted to pick up one specific area relating to the HPV vaccination and cervical cancer in women and girls.

There has been some specific cases recently in Slough where parents and staff have been in touch to clarify the efficacy of the vaccination and the reasoning behind having the vaccination.

To answer these questions and dispel any myths associated with the HPV vaccination I would like to draw your attention to the following 4 resources and the attached flyer.

1. A report published in the Lancet by Cancer Research UK which links lower HPV vaccination rates and higher rates of HPV with the BAME community – Click here
2. Cancer Research UK produce a range of supportive documentation on the vaccination – Click here
3. A systematic 10 year meta-analysis study produced in Oxford academic highlighting the international success of the vaccination – Click here
4. BBC article demonstrating the safety of the HPV vaccination – Click here

Call to action – Please promote these resources within your schools and help us spread the message about the upmost importance of the HPV vaccination. If you would like anything in hard copy or more information then please let me know by emailing timothy.howells@slough.gov.uk.