Nicky McKendrick is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama Holby City, played by actress Belinda Owusu.

The series producer Kate Hall workshopped the characters during August 2017 and in September it was announced that Owusu and Salma Haque had been chosen to play Nicky and Meena.

In August 2017, Holby City series producer Kate Hall told Daniel Kilkelly of Digital Spy that she planned to introduce two new female doctors.

She said that they were work shopping the characters and doing screen tests with Alex Walkinshaw and Kaye Wragg who play Adrian "Fletch" Fletcher and Essie Harrison respectively.

[3] Owusu previously played Libby Fox in the soap opera EastEnders, which like Holby City is filmed at the BBC Elstree Centre.

[2] He added that the pair would be monitored by Consultant cardiothoracic surgeon Jac Naylor (Rosie Marcel), a character known for being "intimidating".

[2] Series producer Kate Hall told Lindsay that the duo are "friends from medical school and Nicky and Meena will have their work cut out as Holby’s fresh F1’s.

Thrown into a fiercely rivalrous, fast-paced surgical world, they will need to go all out to impress senior-ranking consultants and as the young doctors fight to survive, their friendship will be sorely tested.

Through the case she gains experience working with registrar Xavier Duval (Marcus Griffiths) and they struggle to find out what is wrong.

When Raymond reveals that he lost ten stone in two years Nicky makes a diagnosis of SMA Syndrome, which caused the weight loss.

[9] Consultant general surgeon Ric Griffin (Hugh Quarshie) is not impressed by their new arrogance and decides to give them a group of new F1 doctors to mentor.

Akudolu assessed that "poor Nicky was terrified while working under Jac, so the pressure is lifted a little bit with Mo in charge.

F2 doctor Cameron Dunn (Nic Jackman) joins Darwin working rotations with Nicky and Jac coins a duo nickname for them: "Foetus and Fauntleroy".

[13] Nicky is angry when her patient Laurie Stocks (Brian Pettifer) dies because the Darwin team prioritise their colleague Tom Campbell-Gore's (Denis Lawson) surgery.

When Nicky finds Xavier in an office, she knocks over a container housing a virus and the pair are locked inside while decontamination process is completed.

She told Sophie Dainty from Digital Spy that "we will learn more about Nicky, the huge strains on her, and where that goes in a big, gritty, topical story close to my heart.

[20] Writers also played Nicky "out of character" as she calls in sick to earn extra money working overtime in a separate hospital.

[21][22] Owusu told Tyler from Inside Soap that Nicky allowed the situation to worsen because "she has a knack of burying her head in the sand."

Owusu believed that Nicky wouldn't suspect Cameron did any wrong to Steve because "she's wearing love goggles" where he is concerned.

Chris Edwards from Digital Spy confirmed that the actress would stop filming on the show, which could result in a departure for Nicky.

She soon changes her mind after support from friend Louis McGerry (Tyler Luke Cunningham), and instead, opts to leave Holby.

[26] Nicky and Zosia March (Camilla Arfwedson) were revealed as the returnees in the show's 1089th episode as part of the twenty-third and final series, originally broadcast on 14 December 2021.

[27] Sophie Dainty of Digital Spy expressed her love for the character of Nicky and was pleased to learn she would be involved in a more prominent stories.

[31] Inside Soap's Tyler described a newly arrived Nicky as "full of beans" but noted her experiences at work are "no walk in the park".

She said they constantly spent their screen time "sulking, sniping and competing with each other", an attitude Haasler believed was unhelpful to the patients.

[8] Haasler later praised Owusu's comedic performances, branding her "really funny" during her "hilariously impressed" behaviour towards consultant Kian Madani (Ramin Karimloo).