Nicola West

After getting a Biology degree Nicola worked in the food industry for 5 years in quality management roles, before taking a leap into IT project management with Hewlett Packard (HP). Following that she has 20+ years’ experience managing and leading transformation and digital projects and programmes in the private and public sector.

She is now a member of the Kent & Medway Pathology Network senior leadership team as Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Project Director, leading the implementation of one LIMS solution across 4 Trusts and 7 laboratories as part of the network wide Pathology Transformation Programme.

Previously, she was responsible for project managing the combining of Pathology services as a Joint Enterprise to become Derbyshire Pathology, with labs at Chesterfield and Derby Hospitals, followed by implementation of a single LIMS across Derbyshire Pathology - Royal Derby Hospital and Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

She’s passionate about prioritising stakeholder engagement and relationship building, building teams and motivating them to best use their strengths, and health and wellbeing of staff.