Carolina is the Targeted Screening Lead for the UK NSC Secretariat and the Department of Health and Social Care screening team. She has a background in public policy and public policy research and evaluation. She has worked on several cervical screening projects for the UK NSC, including the UK NSC’s in-service evaluation of HPV self-sampling in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme and the HPValidate study in England.
The UK NSC is consulting on whether to offer an HPV self-sampling option to people who rarely or never attend their cervical screening appointments.
The HPValidate study has published its final results and found that 4 combinations of HPV self-collection device and test worked well – these can now be used to help find out how self-sampling could be introduced into cervical screening.