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That is worth thinking about too, Gail. I will see what I can find out.

I thought that might be the case, Julia. I mean, I suppose as a vaccination programme (they often do them through schools with ones like TB and diphtheria/tetanus/polio) it is logical to do it through schools but there will be a lot of girls who will get missed out that way.

The best "advice" on the NHS website is that if you're over the target group age to just wait till you're called for a smear test, which now doesn't happen till you're 25 here. It just doesn't make sense.

I'm only asking because I've been trying to find out if I'm eligible too. I know I'm nearly 24 and all the promotional stuff is aimed at parents of 12-13 years olds (I think on the assumption that they won't yet have had sex) but I've been on the NHS website and it doesn't seem to say anything about girls older than that who haven't yet sex (which is the category I fall into).

So I wondered if there's any parents out there either with daughters in the target age group or those a bit older and whether they were considering their older girls having it to? It just seems to me like a lot of girls who are possibly eligible are going to get missed out. (Unless I'm missing something, but I understood they were aiming to vaccinate girls before they were likely to be sexually active?)