A TOP NHS surgeon who was recorded calling Asian colleagues “vile” has won a three-year fight to save his career.

Clinical director Peter Hale, 58, was accused of racial prejudice for blasting “sub-continent elements” who objected to hospital rota changes.

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Mr Hale, believing he was speaking privately, hit out at three Pakistani doctors and an Indian at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton after an angry meeting.

He said of one: “Chill pill? He needs a good slap.”

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His words led to a sacking for misconduct.

But a disciplinary panel in Manchester ruled he was not racially prejudiced.

It said: “This incident in isolation did not reach the threshold for serious misconduct.’’