Nic Kane
Chief Nurse (voting member on both Trust Boards)
Nic is Chief Nurse across HRCH and Kingston Hospital, and is also the Lead Nurse for cancer care in South West London.
Nic is an experienced senior nurse with extensive clinical, leadership, and operational experience. Within her portfolio at Kingston Hospital, she has been responsible for cancer performance, safeguarding adults, quality and governance, patient experience, health and wellbeing including chaplaincy, practice development, safe staffing, volunteering, dementia and end of life care. Recently she led on the roll out of the COVID vaccination programme, lateral flow and staff COVID testing.
She has worked in a variety of nursing leadership roles in NHS trusts, including Barts Health NHS Trust and The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust.
Nic is Kingston’s clinical representative for the cancer vanguard working across SW and NW London, and she led a collaborative project with NHSE which led to introduction of the faster cancer diagnosis pilot. She is also the Baby Friendly Guardian (as part of the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative) at Kingston Hospital and is the Board Maternity Safety Champion.