Health: Smear Tests Debate

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Health: Smear Tests

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Health: Stroke Care
Monday 13th February 2012

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Howe Portrait Earl Howe
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My Lords, I can reassure my noble friend that the cervical cancer screening programme will be commissioned by the NHS Commissioning Board, so it will be done nationally and centrally.

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Is the HPV vaccination being offered also to teenage boys? After all, they are responsible for spreading this virus.

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My Lords, inoculation is not being offered to boys as part of the national programme. As I am sure the noble Lord knows, the aim of the programme has always been to prevent cervical cancer in women. Clearly, the best way to do that is to vaccinate girls and young women. However, these vaccines can be purchased privately and health professionals should exercise their clinical judgment when prescribing products for specific indications.

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