Personnel

Personnel

Management

The Weqas management team provide leadership across all areas of the service. Each area has a dedicated senior responsible for overseeing the service in their specific area. Staff are encouraged to gain a thorough understanding of all areas of Weqas services, with individual staff members having specialist knowledge in specific areas over which they have more in depth responsibility.
 

Annette Thomas Annette Thomas
Director of Weqas and Consultant Clinical Biochemist
 
Annette Thomas is a Consultant Clinical Biochemist at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board with over 40 years’ experience in Laboratory Medicine, over 20 years of which has been as Director of Weqas, a well-respected International EQA provider and Reference Measurement Laboratory.
 
Annette is also the National Point of Care (POCT) Clinical lead for Wales, a seconded position to the Wales NHS Executive responsible for delivering the strategy plan for POCT. She represents POCT on Welsh Government advisory Committees and chairs the National POCT Strategic Board and the POCT Delivery Group.
 
She is a member of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) Task Force on Global Lab Quality and past chair of the IFCC Committee on Analytical Quality.
 
She has previously held posts on the Executive Board of the European Committee for External Quality Assurance Programmes in Laboratory Medicine (EQALM), chair of the All Wales Clinical Biochemistry Audit Group and chair of the National Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine (ACB) Audit Committee in the UK.
 
In 2019 she received the EQALM Adam Uldall Award for her contribution to promoting quality in laboratory medicine and the Healthcare Science Lifetime Achievement award from the Welsh Government.
 
Email: annette@weqas.com

Dave David Ducroq
Health and Safety Officer and Head of the Reference Measurement Laboratory
 
David is the Principal Clinical Biochemist with a specific role in the management and development of services within the Reference Measurement Laboratory since 2002. With over 35 years laboratory experience, David has a keen interest in metrology and measurement traceability. He is currently the JCTLM Database Working Group (JCTLM-DBWG) review team leader for electrolytes and blood gases. He is a JCTLM-DBWG review team member for both the non-peptide hormones group and metabolites and substrates group. He is also a member of the JCTLM-WG-TEP (Traceability: Education and Promotion).He is also a member of the Association for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine (ACB) Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Special Interest Group.
 
Email: dave@weqas.com
Telephone: 02921 848355

Sam Samantha Jones
Operations Manager
 
Samantha is the Operations Manager at Weqas with over 25 years experience in Laboratory Medicine. Sam worked as a Biomedical Scientist at the Medical Biochemistry and Immunology Department at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff before moving to Weqas in 1998. Since 2010 she has been employed as the Operations Manager responsible for the day to day management of EQA / IQC services.
 
She is a current member of the IFCC Working Group on FIT and represents Weqas at the United Kingdom Proficiency Testing Committee.
 
Email: sam@weqas.com
Telephone: 02921 844301

Gareth Gareth Davies
Deputy Director, Principal Biochemist, R and D Manager
 
Gareth Davies is the Deputy Director, Principal Biochemist and Research and Development Manager at Weqas with over 15 years experience in Laboratory Medicine. Gareth is responsible for new programme development and provides EQA interpretation, support and troubleshooting. He is a member of the National Clinical Biochemistry Audit Group and All Wales Clinical Biochemistry Audit Group, and a member of the ACB Pre-Analytical Phase Special Interest Group (ACB PA SIG).
 
Email: gareth@weqas.com
Telephone: 02921 841286

Quality Team

Responsible for the design, implementation and management of the Quality System; to promote Quality within the organisation, and to ensure that the Organisation meets both regulatory and accreditation requirements.
 
Charlotte Evans
Quality Manager
 
Email: charlotte@weqas.com
Telephone: 02921 841289


Naila Shadi
Quality Lead
 
Email: naila@weqas.com
Telephone: 02921 844544


Business, Sales & Marketing

Laura Lloyd-Lewis
Business and Marketing Lead
 
Email: marketing@weqas.com
Telephone: 02921 841287


EQA Client Management
Nicky Nicola Blount
EQA Client Manager
 
Senior Biomedical Scientist responsible for day to day EQA client management.
 
Email: nicola@weqas.com
Telephone: 02921 845464

Finance
vanda Vanda Elliott
Finance Manager
 
Responsible for all finance and programme enrolment enquiries.
 
Email: finance@weqas.com
Telephone: 02921 847985

For general enquiries, please email: contact@weqas.com or call us on +44 (0) 2920 314750.