Today (4th March) is HPV Awareness Day, and MSD have published a new report featuring a number of different projects dedicated to ‘Achieving Cervical Cancer Elimination in England’ . This report  includes the work of our school nursing service, which has had huge success in introducing HPV vaccination into local schools.

Nearly all cases of cervical cancer are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), and 99.8% of cervical cancer cases are preventable through HPV vaccination, cervical screening, and early treatment of cell changes detected.

Every year since 2017, the Stockport school nursing team has exceeded the World Health Organisation goal of 90% vaccination coverage in year 9 girls. In the long term, this is an approach which will help save many lives.

Find out more, including access to the full report on the MSD page here.