Authors

David Hawkes

BSc (Hons), PhD, Director, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Victorian Cytology Service (VCS), Melbourne, Vic; Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne Vic. dhawkes@vcs.org.au


Factors influencing healthcare practitioners’ decision to offer (or not) the choice of self-collection cervical screening in general practice in Victoria, Australia

This study aimed to understand healthcare practitioners’ decisions, and factors related to, the provision (or not) to allow all women and people with a cervix the choice of a self-collected sample.


Human papillomavirus testing as part of the renewed National Cervical Screening Program

Australia has adopted innovative, evidence-based criteria for the inclusion of HPV NAT assays in the renewed NCSP.