An Asian medical professor on £100,000-a-year who was accused of ‘playing the race card’ and then sacked has won a racism case against an NHS trust.
Professor Tanweer Ahmed, 55, is now in line to receive a big payout after successfully suing the trust after he was sacked over ‘laughable’ bullying allegations.
The senior clinical director at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust tried to fight off the historical accusations, which he branded ‘malicious’ and a tribunal found were based ‘heavily on hearsay’.
But Prof Ahmed – who is Muslim from a Pakistani background – was dragged through a disciplinary investigation and sacked after an NHS HR boss moaned he was ‘playing the race card’.
An employment tribunal ruled in his favour over claims of race discrimination, victimisation and unfair dismissal.
Professor Ahmed was unfairly sacked after he was accused of bullying a former colleague at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Prof Ahmed had 16 years service and…
