About Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics (Quest) is a large American clinical laboratory business, which employs 43,000 people worldwide and is expanding in the UK. The company has two business units on this side of the Atlantic, the first providing laboratory testing services to the National Health Service and the second providing laboratory testing services to pharmaceutical companies running clinical trials to develop new drugs. Quest employs biomedical scientists, project management and data management staff to work in its laboratories and liaise with its clients.
“Less emphasis is placed on speed and more on the quality of the work”
“I joined Quest from a very busy NHS laboratory. The first difference I noticed was that I had time to actually think properly about what I was doing, time to research an unusual organism I had isolated, for example. Less emphasis is placed on the speed at which one works compared to the NHS, and more on the quality of the work.
“Furthering your education to master’s degree level is encouraged and relief for one day a week to attend lectures while retaining full salary is generous. Most importantly, initiative and hard work is noticed and applauded.”
Sarah Cooney, biomedical scientist, graduated 2005