Dr Agimol Pradeep, Kings College Hospital, London
Dr Agimol Pradeep
Senior Transplant Coordinator
Kings College Hospital, London

Dr. Agimol Pradeep BEM, Senior Transplant Coordinator at Kings College Hospital, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford. She completed her nursing studies in India and has been working in NHS care settings since 2001. She is also a philanthropist to promote Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) organ and stem cell donation awareness. She was successful in achieving funding from the British Renal Society in 2011 to complete her PhD on the topic of “Increasing organ donation in the North West South Asian community through targeted education.” Her PhD implemented a positive impact by understanding South Asians' attitudes and their health behaviours and beliefs and implementing targeted education to change their beliefs and attitudes towards organ donation. She has been working closely with NHSBT in her volunteer capacity since 2010 and remains a steering group member for the Community Investment Scheme. Her contribution to the community in promoting the organ donation message was recognised nationally, and she received the British Empire Medal (BEM) in 2018 and Nurse of the Year in 2015 from the British Journal of Nursing.

She initiated the campaign in 2020 to support Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN’s) working in the UK as unregistered practitioners. Played a key role in reviewing the NMC's English language requirment policy and implementing the Supporting Information from Employer (SIFE) pathway, to enable the IEN’s to complete their UK registration. She remain as the NMC’s Expert Advisory Group member of the English Language Review Group. So far, around 3,000 nurses have regained their professional identity through this initiative. This initiative was recognised by the Health Service Journal (HSJ) for workforce initiative in 2023. She is a member of the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) international committee.

She has presented at several national and international conferences, and her articles are published in Transplant Journals, British Journal of Nursing, Nursing Standard, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of Clinical Nursing, etc. She also serves as a reviewer for nursing and transplant journals.