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{{Short description|British-Indian doctor and television presenter}}
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*Past Chair of BIDA
*Charitable work
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'''Shiv Pande''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE|DL|FRCGP}} ({{langx|hi|शिव पांडे}}; born 25 October 1938) is an Indian-born [[general practitioner]] (GP) doctor in the United Kingdom. In the 1980s, Pande presented the UK's Asian television programme ''[[Aap Kaa Hak]]'', which ran for fourteen years. He was chair of the [[British International Doctors Association|British International Doctors' Association (BIDA)]], formerly known as the Overseas Doctors Association (ODA). In addition, he was the first Asian doctor to be elected as treasurer of the [[General Medical Council]]. He is a visiting professor at [[Gauhati University]], India, and at the [[University of Bolton]].

He has helped raise funds for charity, including arranging a joint India-Pakistan cricket team to play against "the rest of the world" in 1985 to raise money for Mother Teresa's charity and the orphans of the [[Bhopal gas tragedy]]. In 2018, his story was one of those told in a book on migrant South Asian doctors and was simultaneously part of an exhibition on migrant doctors at the [[Royal College of General Practitioners]] in London.

==Early life and family==
Pande was born on 25 October 1938 in central [[British Raj|British India]].<ref name="CookGPOnline2018">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gponline.com/interview-i-first-single-handed-gp-liverpool-employ-practice-nurse/article/1463163|title=Interview: 'I was the first single-handed GP in Liverpool to employ a practice nurse' {{!}} GPonline|website=www.gponline.com|access-date=23 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="Nurturing">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nurturingthenation.org.uk/biography/doctors/2.3/shiv-pande/17.html|title=Nurturing the Nation :: Biographies|website=www.nurturingthenation.org.uk|language=en|access-date=27 June 2018}}</ref> Since his father had a business in Bombay (now Mumbai), Pande was able to stay with him and complete his early education in Mumbai.<ref name="Nurturing"/>

Pande married Kala and they have three children, including two who became GPs.<ref name="CookGPOnline2018" /><ref name="LiverpoolNews2015"/>

==Surgical career==
After completing his [[MBBS]] in 1962<ref name="inews2018">{{Cite news|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-at-70-south-asian-doctors-immigrants-lifeblood/|title=NHS at 70: why South Asian doctors became the 'lifeblood' of the health service|date=18 June 2018|work=i|access-date=23 July 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref> and a master's degree in surgery from [[Vikram University]],<ref name="Sonwalker2018"" /> [[Indore]],<ref name="Nurturing"/> he spent nine years<ref name="inews2018"/> in surgery in various medical colleges before travelling to the Britain to train in surgery for two years.<ref name="Nurturing"/> He was one of more than 10,000 South Asian doctors who sought work in Britain in the four decades after the Second World War.<ref name="CookGPOnline2018"/>

He initially worked in [[accident and emergency]] at the Royal Albert Infirmary, Wigan, followed by a position as a registrar<ref name="CookGPOnline2018"/> in cardio-thoracic surgery at the [[London Chest Hospital]], during which time his wife travelled from India to join him.<ref name="CookGPOnline2018"/> Subsequently, he obtained placements at [[Broadgreen Hospital]] and [[Aintree University Hospital|Fazakerley Hospital]], Liverpool.<ref name="IndianExpress2015">{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/world/indians-abroad/indian-origin-doctor-shiv-pande-receives-honorary-fellowship-in-uk/|title=Indian-origin doctor Shiv Pande receives honorary fellowship in UK|date=19 July 2015|work=The Indian Express|access-date=27 June 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> His two-year plan extended to four and he therefore remained.<ref name="Nurturing"/>

==General practice==
By 1975, his children were settling into secondary school and there were increasing job opportunities in general practice. He completed his one-year vocational training in Liverpool and whilst job searching, worked as a GP locum prior to being taken on as a partner with another Asian-born GP who had suffered a heart attack.<ref name="CookGPOnline2018"/> This practice belonged to a [[Goan]] GP, Dr Paes, whose Welsh wife, Dilys, took care of the paperwork and whose daughter carried out the role of receptionist. Without an appointment system, patients turned up and waited their turn.<ref name="inews2018"/> Thereafter, Pande ran this practice and gained another practice in 1981.<ref name="CookGPOnline2018"/>

Being single-handed and unable to always use an expensive locum service meant that Pande had to be available to patients twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year. Other difficulties included some female patients not wishing to disclose their problems to a male doctor. However, as an independent practitioner with some autonomy in decision-making, Pande had the freedom to appoint assistance from a nurse, and in Liverpool was the first single-handed GP to do so.<ref name="CookGPOnline2018"/><ref name="SunTimes2018"">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/article/1042588/how-thousands-of-south-asian-doctors-helped-keep-the-nhs-afloat|title=How thousands of South Asian doctors helped keep the NHS afloat|date=26 April 2018|website=www.sundaytimes.lk|language=en|access-date=23 July 2018}}</ref>

==Television==
Pande became involved in television programmes for Asian people,<ref name="Nurturing"/> He hosted a citizens' rights programme ''[[Aap Kaa Hak]]'' (''This is Your Right''), broadcast by [[Granada TV]] from 1980, for fourteen years.<ref name="Simpson2018"/> It was founded on the principles of [[Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley|Lord Michael Winstanley]]'s English-language show ''[[This is Your Right]]''. In a similar manner, Pande would respond to queries about health and welfare in [[Hindi]] and [[Urdu]], whilst his Pakistani [[barrister]] friend answered the legal queries.<ref name="Simpson2018"/>

The show introduced Pande to numerous allied health professionals including dieticians and social workers, and he extended their services to his own practice, providing "children's health checks, vaccinations, and family-planning clinics".<ref name="CookGPOnline2018"/>

He worked as broadcaster for the BBC North West TV and BBC Radio Merseyside, and for 24 years has been a Justice of Peace on the Liverpool bench. In 2002, he was appointed a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of Merseyside.<ref name="LiverpoolNews2015"/>

==Other roles==
Pande has been chairman of the British International Doctors' Association, (BIDA), previously known as the Overseas Doctors Association (ODA). He was the first Asian doctor to be elected as treasurer of the [[General Medical Council]].<ref name="Nurturing"/><ref name="UCLAN2015">{{Cite news|url=https://www.uclan.ac.uk/news/honorary_fellowships_2015.php|title=Archive {{!}} News {{!}}|date=2015|publisher= University of Central Lancashire|access-date=26 July 2018|language=en}}</ref>

===PLAB===
In 1996, Pande initiated and oversaw the pilot of the first part of the [[Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board]] (PLAB) test to be held in India. The innovation allowed thousands of young Indian doctors to sit the exam in their home country, rather than in Britain.<ref name="Sonwalker2018"">{{Cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/uk-varsity-to-honour-indian-doctor-for-being-a-superb-role-model/story-oDNJAIpbSsmbPMXNbkW4dK.html|title=UK varsity to honour Indian doctor for being 'a superb role model'|date=October 2015|work=Hindustantimes|access-date=23 July 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name="LifetimeAward2004">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nriinternet.com/Section3Who/WhoEurope/UK/DrPANDEaward/indexDRaward.htm|title=NRI doctor Shiv Pande wins Asian Jewel Award, "life time achievement award 2004"|website=www.nriinternet.com|access-date=23 July 2018}}</ref>

===Charity===
In 1984, Pande arranged for India's World Cup-winning cricketers to be involved in coaching unemployed Liverpool youngsters when the Indian cricketers visited the city in 1984.<ref name="Sonwalker2018"" /><ref name=":BIDA2018" />

A year later, hoping to achieve a similar success as the music world had done for the Ethiopian famine victims with [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]],<ref name=":Stars1985">{{Cite news|title=Stars Help Victims|date=28 August 1985|work=Manchester Evening News}}</ref> he raised £20,000<ref name="Sonwalker2018"" /> for [[Mother Teresa]]'s charity and the orphans of the [[Bhopal disaster|Bhopal gas disaster]] by<ref name="ManchesterDonation1985"/> forming for the first time, a combined India-Pakistan XI cricket team to play against "the rest of the world".<ref name="LifetimeAward2004" /><ref>{{Cite news|title=GP sets up charity raffles of cricket mementos|date=16 August 1985|work=General Practitioner}}</ref> The match was held on 28 August 1985, at [[Old Trafford Cricket Ground]], home of the [[Lancashire County Cricket Club]], Manchester, one of the sponsors.<ref name="ManchesterDonation1985"/><ref name="Fitzpatrick1985"/> Players included [[Clive Lloyd]] as captain of "the rest of the world",<ref>{{Cite news|title=Lloyd Skippers World Line-up|date=22 August 1985|work=The Daily Telegraph|page=22}}</ref> with [[Desmond Haynes]], [[Alvin Kallicharran]], [[Peter Lever]] and [[Graeme Fowler]] amongst others from Britain, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand.<ref name="ManchesterDonation1985">{{Cite news|title=Manchester donation for Bhopal fund|last=Majumder|first=Manab|date=22 August 1985|work=India Weekly}}</ref> The India-Pakistan team was captained by [[Gundappa Viswanath]], and included [[Madan Lal]], [[Kirti Azad]], [[Dilip Doshi]], [[Mudassar Nazar]], [[Mohsin Khan (Pakistani cricketer)|Mohsin Khan]] and others.<ref name="ManchesterDonation1985"/> The crowd numbered almost 5,000,<ref name="Fitzpatrick1985">{{Cite news|title=Kalli shows rest the way home|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Paul|date=29 August 1985|work=The Guardian}}</ref> and it was televised by [[Granada TV]].<ref name=":Stars1985"/> Pande personally presented the raised funds to Mother Teresa and the then prime minister of India, [[Rajiv Gandhi]].<ref name="LifetimeAward2004" />

In addition, he raised funds for the [[1993 Latur earthquake]] victims at a reception hosted by [[Prince Charles]] at Kensington Palace.<ref name="LifetimeAward2004"/>

==Retirement==
After 30 years in general practice,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://richardkemp.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/the-debt-that-the-nhs-and-the-country-owes-to-immigrants/|title=The debt that the NHS and the Country owes to immigrants|date=20 June 2018|work=But what does [[Richard Kemp (politician)|Richard Kemp]] think?|access-date=2 August 2018|language=en-US}}
</ref> Pande retired in 2005.<ref name="LiverpoolNews2015"/>

In 2016, Pande was appointed visiting professor in [[ethics]] and leadership at Gauhati University, India.<ref name=":Horasis2016">{{Cite web|url=https://horasis.org/wp-content/uploads/Horasis-Global-Meeting-2016-programme-brochure.pdf|title=Horasis Global Meeting, 2016|date=13-15 June 2016|website=www.horasis.org}}</ref> A year later, he was appointed visiting professor at the University of Bolton.<ref name=":BIDA2018">{{Cite journal|date=2 June 2018|title=70th Anniversary NHS, the huge contribution made by overseas doctors|url=http://www.bidaonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BIDA-Journal-Jun2018-A4x28pp-WEB2-003.pdf|journal=The Journal of the British International Doctors' Association Issue|volume=24|pages=21}}</ref>

In 2018, his story was part of an exhibition at the RCGP in London on South Asian migrant doctors in the UK.<ref name="Simpson2018">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yk1YDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT237|title=Migrant Architects of the NHS: South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)|last=Simpson|first=Julian M.|date=2018|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9781784991302|location=Manchester|pages=218–219|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":RCGP2018">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rcgp.org.uk/about-us/news/2018/april/migrants-who-made-the-nhs-college-pays-tribute-to-gps.aspx|title=Migrants who made the NHS: College pays tribute to GPs who served patients – and the profession – during difficult times in the history of general practice|website=www.rcgp.org.uk|language=en|access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref> His interview was one of forty-five oral histories in [[Julian M. Simpson]]'s ''[[Migrant architects of the NHS; South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)]]'', used to illustrate how imperial legacies and medical migration shaped healthcare in the UK in the decades following the founding of the [[NHS]].<ref name="inews2018" /><ref name="Simpson2018"/>

==Awards==
Pande was awarded an honorary fellowship by the University of Central Lancashire in recognition of his contribution to the community.<ref name="LiverpoolNews2015">{{Cite news|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/merseyside-doctor-receives-honorary-fellowship-9658115|title=Merseyside doctor receives honorary fellowship for years of community work|date=15 July 2015|work=Liverpool Echo|access-date=27 June 2018}}</ref> In 1989, he received an MBE.<ref name="LiverpoolNews2015"/> In 2004, Pande received the [[Lloyds TSB]] lifetime achievement award.<ref name="LifetimeAward2004"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991302/|publisher=Manchester University Press |title= Migrant architects of the NHS|access-date=4 August 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> 10 years later he was awarded the RCGP's "lifetime achievement award".<ref name=Bower2024>{{cite web |last1=Bower |first1=Emma Bower |title=RCGP recognises achievements of members in its annual Inspire Awards |url=https://www.gponline.com/rcgp-recognises-achievements-members-its-annual-inspire-awards/article/1878846 |website=www.gponline.com |publisher=GP Online |access-date=9 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627182520/https://www.gponline.com/rcgp-recognises-achievements-members-its-annual-inspire-awards/article/1878846 |archive-date=27 June 2024 |language=en |date=27 June 2024}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
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[[Category:Indian emigrants to England]]
[[Category:Deputy lieutenants of Merseyside]]
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[[Category:Medical doctors from Liverpool]]

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