Prakash Shchidamand Sinha was born in Dhanbad in the state of Bihar in India. His parents were Sachinanand and Sabita Sinha and he had an older brother and sister. The family moved to Mumbai soon after his birth and he attended the Don Bosco School where he excelled both academically and at cricket and chess, becoming head boy. He read medicine at Grant Medical College qualifying MB, BS in 1985 and trained at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy hospital group. After a rather unsatisfactory period in private practice in Mumbai, he moved to the UK in 1993, doing house jobs at the West Birmingham Hospital and then the Medway Hospital in Kent, by which time his wife and two young children were able to join him. Passing the fellowship of the college in 1994, he undertook research resulting in an MD and then relocated to the North East to continue his oncoplastic studies in North Tees and Newcastle. In 2002 he was appointed consultant surgeon at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) in Orpington, heading the breast unit for many years. Sixteen years later, in 2018, he was appointed medical director at the hospital which, at that time, made him one of the very few medical directors of Indian origin practising in the NHS. A gifted surgeon, he was also a popular mentor and teacher. An enthusiastic fundraiser, he raised large amounts of money towards the treatment of patients with breast cancer, including providing an endoscopy unit at the PRUH. A keen mountaineer (who also learned to ski at the age of 50), he raised funds in support of the Chartwell Cancer Trust by sponsored climbs of Kilimanjaro and Annapurna. He did not neglect his home country and co-founded a charity there which led to him being awarded the Mahatma Ghandi Pravarshi Samman from the NRI Welfare Society of India in 2016. He contracted covid-19 at the hospital early in its outbreak in March 2020 and it is possible that this was the cause of him suffering a fatal heart attack on the way to work on 21 October 2020. Ironically he had been working on a project to ensure the safety of NHS staff during the pandemic. When he died, aged 58, he was survived by his wife, Mahina, their son Aaditya who is studying to become a surgeon and daughter Pajakta who graduated with an MBA from St Andrew’s University in artificial intelligence and works for the NHS.