Ramesh Mehta (paediatrician)

He then completed his higher specialist training in the UK, obtained Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health.

He led the BAPIO challenge against the British government’s April 2006 “guideline” to hospital trusts to employ non-EU doctors only if no candidate from the EU is available.

However, a High Court judge ruled that the clinical skills assessment did not unlawfully discriminate against ethnic minority candidates.

He inspired the seminal work - Bridging the Gap in 2021, which produced 10 consensus recommendations for the tackling bias in the full spectrum of medical careers.

He has worked on improving workforce recruitment and retention through his project on establishing the Dignity Charter for the NHS which was launched at the Royal College of Surgeons by Sir Stephen Powis in October 2022.