Health officials are urging hundreds of thousands of young people to get vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), after it was discovered that more than 418,000 children have left school without protection in the past three years.
The HPV vaccine, routinely offered to boys and girls in Year 8, is a critical tool in the UK's fight to eliminate cervical cancer, with 13 high-risk HPV types responsible for 99.7 per cent of cases.
