Professor Tara Rampal

Professor Rampal is the founder of QuestPrehab™, an award winning innovative digital prehab service. She is a Consultant Anaesthetist with a keen interest in Peri-Operative care and Population Health. She trained at the Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia where she was awarded the Excellence Award for Academic Achievement in 2008.

She is passionate about the potential of digital tools in changing the healthcare landscape and is a frequent speaker at events discussing innovation in healthcare. She is frequently invited to write thought leadership articles related to clinical entrepreneurship.

Leadership Experience

NHS

Professor Rampal has a credible and commendable track record of developing world class award winning patient optimisation services. During her tenure at Medway NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) she led the development the Prehab Unit. For her work she received Enhance Recovery After Surgery Society (ERAS) award for the best perioperative success story (2019) as well as Chief Executive’s Scholarship for Brilliance. The latter facilitated her travel and observership of the prehab unit at McGill University in Montreal. While she led the Prehab Unit at MFT, the unit was rated outstanding by the Care Quality commission (CQC) inspection of the Trust (2020) and featured on the BBC South East news (2020). Since 2020 she developed and leads the peri-operative prehab program at Princess Royal University Hospital ( King’s College NHS Foundation Trust).

Entrepreneurship

She is the founder of the award winning QuestPrehab (formerly know as Kent and Medway Prehab™). This programme was featured as a case study in the NHS-X digital playbook, The Telegraph and the MailOnSunday. As part of this initiative she has published A collection of recipes. This booklet features delicious and nutritious recipes donated by outstanding British Chefs to aid the healing of people with cancer as they go through their survivorship journey. QuestPrehab has partnered with The BowelCancer UK and the YesToLife Charities to develop resources for patients. She regularly presents their accomplishment at national and international scientific meetings.

Academics

Professor Ramp[al is affiliated with University of Greenwich. She undertakes regular scientific inquiries. A summary of her published projects can be found on the research page.