Annette Thomas
National Point of Care Clinical Lead - National Health Service Executive | Weqas Director and Consultant Clinical Biochemist - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
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, the IFCC POCT Committee 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), and chair of the National Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine (ACB) Audit Committee in the UK.
In 2019 she received the Healthcare Science Lifetime Achievement award from the Welsh Government and the EQALM Adam Uldall Award for her contribution to promoting quality in laboratory medicine.