County GPs to give 'cancer jab'

Teenage girls in Derbyshire are getting a vaccine to protect them against cervical cancer this autumn. The county is one of only a few places in the UK where the injections will be given at GP surgeries on the NHS rather than at schools. The vaccine is being offered to 12 and 13-year-olds for the first time from September as part of a national government vaccination programme. The vaccine, human papillomavirus... [read full story]                    

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