Agenda item - Cervical Screening & HPV Vaccination: Update

Report of NHS England, NHS Sussex and the Director of Public Health (copy attached).

19.1    This item was introduced by Morag Armer from NHS England, by Katy Harker and Becky Woodiwiss from the council’s Public Health Team, and by Steve Peacock from NHS Sussex. There was a presentation setting out cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination rates and plans to further improve performance.

19.2    Members asked a number of questions on issues including barriers to screening for young women; the potential for women who have missed HPV vaccination opportunities to have catch-up jabs; the potential for cervical cancer screening self-sampling; screening services at universities; the reason for different screening rates across Sussex; monitoring screening uptake amongst trans men; how fear of screening being painful impacts on uptake; the potential for more mobile screening units; rising rates of oral cancers; the age for cervical screening to begin; and differing access rates within black and racially minoritised communities.

19.3    RESOLVED – that the report be noted.