Consultant Jyoti Shah, honoured for her services to medicine and work in the screening and diagnosis of cancer patients in the community, has received her MBE from King Charles III.
Miss Shah is a Macmillan Consultant Urological Surgeon at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust which runs Peterborough City Hospital. Stamford and Rutland Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital at Huntingdon.
She was invited to the investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, where she was presented with her MBE by His Majesty.
Before 2023 Jyoti was working at Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has a specialist interest in prostate cancer, innovative techniques, and teaching.
During a career which has so far spanned over quarter of a century, Miss Shah is helping to lead the fight against prostate cancer by running clinics within the local community, a topic she briefly spoke about with His Majesty.
Miss Shah said: “It was an absolute honour to be part of this incredible investiture at Buckingham Palace and to meet with, and chat to, His Majesty about the importance of prostate cancer health checks, screening and awareness.”
Over the Christmas break, Miss Shah and her team staged Peterborough’s first community clinic with dozens of men boarding the prostate health check bus in the city centre.
The event was so successful, that similar clinics will now be planned for 2024 to meet demand.
Since introducing her Fighting Prostate Cancer campaign in community settings around the UK in 2016, more than 3,000 men have been screened – leading to the detection of around 100 cancer cases.
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust continues to operate its GP referral Fast-Track Prostate Assessment clinics at Stamford and Rutland Hospital, with a team led by Miss Shah and at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon.
