Information regarding the HPV Vaccination

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Dear Department of Health,

Dear Professor Salisbury,

I am undertaking a research project for my college course regarding the HPV vaccination. I understand that there have been some concerns over its safety and would be very grateful if I could have your response on the following?

1) How many complaints/queries have been raised and addressed to yourself, your department or the NHS, since the immunisation programme began in 2008, from Health care officials, parents or schools? (or in fact any individual)

2) What steps are you taking to investigate these worries and concerns?

3) In your green book you state "There is no clinical data on whether the interval between doses two and three can be reduced below three months." but you then go on to say "Where the second dose is given late and there is a high likelihood that the individual will not return for a third dose after three months or if, for practical reasons, it is not possible to schedule a
third dose within this time-frame, then a third dose of Cervarix® can be given at least one month after the second dose. " How can this contradiction be justified when there is no medical data available to say whether this is dangerous?

4) Your green book states under "contradictions" that "The vaccine should not be given to those who have had: a confirmed anaphylactic reaction to any components of the vaccine." If the vaccines ingredients are not listed on the leaflets and the administrator does not hold the childs medical records, as is the case when vaccinations are under taken at school, how can either the nurse or the parent know that the child should not have this vaccination?

5) In your letter to PCT immunisation coordinators, SHA immunisation leads & HPU immunisation leads dated 2nd May 2008 you state at the bottom of page four "JCVI has recommended that the routine HPV immunisation programme would be most efficiently delivered through schools" I understand that this vaccine should not be given unless the administrator has access to an individuals records and that just does not happen in schools. What is the legal position on this?

6) Should the administrator have access to a childs medical records, does this not contravene the data protection act/patient confidentiality as the administrator is not the childs doctor?

7) How can a parent/child give informed consent if statistics regarding injuries and lists of the sever injuries that might occur are not given on the patient leaflets, when informed consent is a legal procedure to ensure that a patient knows all the risks inolved?

Yours faithfully,

Ellen Bown

Department of Health and Social Care

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Caron Ryalls left an annotation ()

As of March 2012 over 6ooo Yellow Card reports have been received regarding the HPV vaccine and itis generally estimated that Yellow Card reports represent only 1%-10% of the Adverse Effects experienced due to massive under reporting. Many young girls are experiencing extremely debilitating ME-type symptoms which started after their HPV vaccination and the standard response from DoH and MHRA is that ME is naturally occuring in the teenage population, so is not a cause for concern regarding the HPV vaccine. I have previously requested incidence figures of ME in teenagers (and the general population) under FOI, the reponse being that these figures are not recorded anywhere or held by any public body. In other words the DoH or MHRA have no idea what the 'natural' incidence of ME is amongst teenagers, so how are they able to state with any confidence or accuracy that the HPV vaccine has not resulted in an increase.