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Dr Prash Ladva MD (born August 1996), is Chief executive of the digital healthcare platform LinkMedics. Ladva is currently an NHS doctor in Lancashire where he was born and resides. He is also an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, and later this year will take on the role of Clinical Fellow to Professor Stephen Powis who is the current NHS National Medical Director.

Early life[edit]
Ladva was born in Deane, Bolton and attended St Mary's CE Primary School, where he now sits on the Board of Governors. He then attended Ladybridge High School, before going onto study A-levels at Runshaw College in Leyland. After failing his first year of A-levels, Ladva was dismissed from Runshaw and was forced to move to Pendleton College in Salford to repeat his A-levels in Chemistry, Biology, Psychology and ICT, with the hope of studying medicine at university.

Despite successfully completing his A-levels, Ladva was subsequently rejected from medical school in the UK. Aged 18, he left the UK and went on to read medicine at the Medical University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria, where after six years of study he qualified as Doctor of Medicine. He returned to the UK shortly after to begin working as a doctor in the NHS.

Career[edit]
Ladva founded the health tech company LinkMedics from his university bedroom; a digital platform that provides NHS training, employment and pastoral care for thousands of newly qualified overseas doctors wanting to work in the NHS. He was appointed to the role of NHS Clinical Entrepreneur in early 2020, and went on to become an Innovation Fellow at the Mid & South Essex Integrated Care Board in late 2022. He was appointed to the Board of the British Indian Medical Association to support thousands of doctors and medical students from ethnic minorities and is a mentor for the charity Migrant Leaders.