Cuschieri, Kate http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2604-3928
Palmer, Tim
Graham, Catriona
Cameron, Ross
Roy, Kirsty
Article History
Received: 4 January 2023
Revised: 30 June 2023
Accepted: 27 July 2023
First Online: 10 August 2023
Competing interests
: The work was performed as part of National HPV immunisation surveillance in Scotland, which is coordinated though Public Health Scotland (PHS). TP, RC and KR are employees of PHS. KC is Director of the Scottish HPV Reference Laboratory which is commissioned to deliver HPV testing and typing to inform Public Health surveillance. CG declares no competing interests.
: Records were anonymised before analysis, with preservation of linkage between immunisation and histology when appropriate. Caldicott Guardian approval, a UK process to ensure that the use of personal data complies with legal requirements for data protection and is in the public interest, was obtained for the use of data. The samples were generated through the routine activity of the Scottish cervical screening programme. Participation in the programme gives implied consent for the use of data derived from this participation for service monitoring and improvement. Management of individual patients was not affected by this study.
: The manuscript contains aggregate data only and does not contain person-level data.