Tapesh Pakrashi read Medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford and trained in Newcastle, Leeds and Cambridge before undertaking his Specialist Registrar Training in Cardiology in London, which included the Pan Thames Heart Failure Rotation at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Harefield Hospital and the Whittington Hospital.

He has been a Consultant Cardiologist and the Heart Failure Lead at Kingston Hospital since 2012 and was a visiting consultant cardiologist at St George's Hospital between 2012 and 2015.

He was Clinical Director for Cardiology and Clinical Haematology at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from 2013 to 2018 and was Undergraduate Sub-Dean at Kingston for St George’s, University of London, between 2017 and 2021.

He became Clinical Lead for Cardiology in August 2020 at Kingston Hospital, and has also been Chair of the Kingston Hospital Medical Staff Committee since November 2020.

Dr Pakrashi has an interest in all aspects of adult general cardiology, including heart failure, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, cardiac imaging, arrhythmias and hypertension. He developed the Heart Failure Service at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Community Cardiology services in Kingston and the East Elmbridge Community Cardiology Service at Emberbrook.