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 has recommended that women who never or rarely attend their routine cervical screening appointments could be offered a self-sampling test option.
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.