Dr Umesh Prabhu
Dr Umesh Prabhu is medical director at the Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, a consultant paediatrician, NCAA adviser and Clinical Director for the NHS Professionals. After his graduation in India Umesh came to UK in 1982. He then trained in Paediatrics at Oxford, Edinburgh and Leeds and in 1992 was appointed as a Consultant Paediatrician to the Bury NHS Trust. He was the lead clinician in Paediatrics between 1992 to 1998. In 1998 he was appointed as the Medical Director of Bury Trust. He was a Non-executive member of the NPSA from 2001-2003. His special interest is medical errors and patient safety. As a Medical Director he conducted an audit of all medico-legal cases and complaints. He also analysed all cases of severe birth asphyxia at Bury NHS Trust from 1986 to 1994. Umesh has personal personal experience in the field of Patient safety and medical errors and is apassionate believer that protecting patients and supporting doctors are the two sides of the same coin.
