Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support the Government providing to help tackle regional variations in delivery of the HPV vaccine programme in schools.
NHS England and NHS Improvement’s regional health commissioning teams work with local stakeholders to monitor uptake data and commission human papillomavirus vaccines. In areas of low uptake, regional teams will host catch up clinics in schools and local venues and manage local call and recall processes.
Additional work is ongoing using the data and technological solutions created for the expanded flu and COVID-19 immunisation programmes to measure and record timely vaccination events, react to regional variations and tackle health inequalities.