Speaking
Keynotes, panels and teaching
Tara speaks to clinical, policy and industry audiences across the UK and internationally on prehabilitation, patient safety and digital health.
Talk topics
What Tara speaks about
Digital prehabilitation at scale
What it takes to move from a pilot to an NHS-wide service, and how to sustain it.
Prehab as patient safety
How optimising patients before surgery reduces cancellations, complications and length of stay.
Equity and cultural competence
Designing perioperative care that reaches every community, not just the easiest to reach.
Overcoming barriers to implementation
Evidence-led lessons for commissioners, managers and clinical teams.
Formats: keynotes, panel discussions and chairing, grand rounds, workshops, webinars and podcasts.
International
Selected international engagements
AANEM Annual Meeting
14th ISPRM World Congress and 53rd AAP Annual Meeting
International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM)
McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine
Polish Prehabilitation Conference
Shanghai International Medical Centre — digital prehabilitation
Prehabilitation and harm prevention
United Kingdom
Selected UK engagements
Exercise Oncology Conference, The Royal Marsden — “Overcoming challenges to implementation”
Anaesthesia & Critical Care 2023 — “Technology-enhanced clinical services”
Operating Theatre Show 2021 (IGPP) — keynote
Anaesthesia and Critical Care Conference — keynote
Royal College of Surgeons — Future of Surgery
The Royal Marsden Exercise Oncology Study Day — “Incorporation of telehealth in oncology”
The King’s Fund — Population health: “Joining the dots”
NHS Transformation Directorate — launch of the Digital Playbook
Imperial College — National Study Day (organised by West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals)
NHS Providers Conference · HSJ Patient Safety Congress · NHS Telemedicine Conference
Harold Youngman East Anglia Perioperative Conference
Midlands Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Conference
Bowel Cancer UK — “An Expert Explores: prehabilitation”
Healthcare Conferences UK — “Prehabilitation: principles and practice for supporting patients to get fit for surgery”
For event organisers
Short speaker bio
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Professor Tara Rampal MBBS FRCA is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Lead for the Perioperative Prehab Unit at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a Visiting Professor at the University of Greenwich, and the founder of Kent & Medway Prehab and QuestPrehab. QuestPrehab, the digital prehabilitation service she founded, won Surgical Care Safety Initiative of the Year at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2026.
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