Dr Amrit Sachar

Dr Amrit Sachar has been a liaison psychiatry consultant and worked in West London NHS Trust since 2005, where she is a Freedom to Speak Up Champion and is leading the organisation’s work on Medical Workforce Race Equality Standards (MWRES). She has been one of the Liaison Psychiatry Faculty Equality Champions and worked on the College’s Tackling Racism in The Workplace Guidance, 2023. She is excited about taking this work to the next level in the role of Joint Presidential Lead for Equality and Equity.

Amrit’s main clinical interests are around integration of mental and social health care into physical health care delivery. She has collaborated with national charities like Diabetes UK and Kidney Care UK, to develop guidance for this in diabetes and renal care. She is particularly interested in addressing the care gaps for people with intersectional protected characteristics, a history of trauma or diagnoses of implicit exclusion, like personality disorder and substance misuse.

Amrit is a Health Foundation Generation Q Fellow, having completed a Masters in Quality Improvement Leadership at Ashridge Business School (now Hult) and was awarded RCPsych Psychiatrist of the Year for London in 2023.