Pamela Ball was a surgeon at Kidderminster General Hospital and at the West Midlands regional plastic surgery centre at Wordsley Hospital. She was born Pamela Margaret Moody on 28 November 1926 in Half Way Tree, a neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Her mother was Vera Holme Moody née Manley, sister of Norman Washington Manley, statesman, lawyer and Jamaican prime minister. Her father, Ludlow Murcott Moody, a government bacteriologist and then a general practitioner, had trained at King’s College in London and, in 1919, became the first Jamaican to gain the membership of the Royal College of Physicians. Her paternal uncles included Harold Moody, also a physician, who in 1931 set up and led the first black civil rights group in the UK – the League of Coloured Peoples, and Ronald Moody, an eminent sculptor. She qualified in medicine from Birmingham University in 1950. She was a house surgeon to Jimmy Leather at Birmingham General Hospital, and then held posts in casualty and orthopaedics. She gained her FRCS in 1954. She was a resident surgical officer at Kidderminster General Hospital and a clinical assistant in plastic surgery at the West Midlands regionals plastic surgery centre, where she was a busy and efficient surgeon of great experience who did many local anaesthetic lists. However, her medical talents were not confined to surgery as she gave general anaesthetics to obstetric and plastic surgery patients, as well as being a well-respected part-time general practitioner in a large Kidderminster practice. Pamela also did sessions in the accident and emergency department at Kidderminster General Hospital from 1970 to 1985. She married John Ball, an eminent general practitioner and medical politician, in 1957 and by 1960 had given birth to three children – Margaret, David and Jonathan. She played the viola to a high standard and enjoyed playing chamber music. She obtained a first-class honours degree and then a masters’ degree in mathematics from the Open University whilst working in general practice and at Wordsley Hospital. She looked after a well-stocked and exotic garden, and spent many hours salmon fishing in the Scottish Angus Glens. Latterly she did much charity work for Kidderminster General Hospital and was president of the League of Hospital Friends. She was awarded an MBE in 2019. Predeceased by her husband, she died of bone cancer on 16 September 2019.