Health Professionals FAQ

What are the functions of the HPV Register?

The HPV Register is essential for supporting the National HPV Vaccination Program as well as for ongoing monitoring and evaluation. The Register will receive data from all states and territories and from all types of vaccination providers.

The HPV Register will record data about:

  • HPV vaccine doses administered
  • select demographic data (name, address, date of birth, Medicare number, name and contact details of the consenting parent or guardian, indigenous status (optional))
  • details of the immunisation provider

The HPV Register will:

  • send HPV Completion statements to females that have correctly received all 3 HPV vaccination doses.
  • send reminders to individuals who are overdue for HPV vaccination within the school-based program
  • notify HPV vaccinated individuals, in the event that booster doses are required in future
  • make payments to general practitioners who notify the Register of a HPV vaccine dose administered to a 12—26 year-old female as part of the catch up program.
  • provide reports on HPV vaccination status to vaccination providers
  • provide de-identified HPV vaccination data to inform policy making and approved research

In the future, the HPV Register may facilitate cross-referencing of HPV vaccination data with information from cervical cytology (Pap smear) or cervical cancer registries for evaluation purposes.