Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 25th February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects his Department to be in a position to make a decision on HPV vaccination for adolescent boys.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 4th March 2015

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is the independent expert body that advises the Government on all immunisation matters including human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination. JCVI has set up a HPV sub-committee which is giving consideration to work modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of extending HPV vaccination to adolescent boys.

It is anticipated that a model being developed at Warwick University could be presented to the sub-committee in the second half of this year. A separate model being developed by Public Health England may not now be completed until early 2017. JCVI and its HPV sub-committee may need to consider both studies before taking a final view on the impact and cost-effectiveness of extending HPV vaccination to adolescent boys and may therefore not be in a position to do so before early 2017.

Any implementation of an HPV boys vaccination programme will be dependent on JCVI’s final advice.

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