... checking a premature baby's eyes
Consultations
For all consultations, except in emergency, you will need to be referred by your GP. Hospital information, including waiting times, can be found on the NHS website.
My NHS Practice - Adult and Specialist Children's Eye Service
The Eye Department at Addenbrooke's Hospital offers an exceptionally high quality of care. Patients are drawn mainly from the Cambridge area and the unit is also a specialist ophthalmic centre for patients from across East Anglia and beyond. The range of specialties includes paediatric ophthalmology, genetic eye disease, orbital and lacrimal surgery, medical ophthalmology and vitreo-retinal surgery. Care is provided in a dedicated ophthalmic ward and surgical theatres and at the Cambridge Eye Unit, a state-of-the-art day case treatment centre.
I run regular paediatric outpatient clinics and undertake paediatric ophthalmic surgery. In addition, I hold a regular multi-disciplinary genetics clinic, working alongside a consultant geneticist, retinal electrophysiologist and genetic and low-vision counsellors. Patients and families with inherited eye disease (such as retinitis pigmentosa, aniridia and albinism) attending from across the region are offered diagnosis, advice and counselling.
Appointments for children
If you are based in or near Cambridge, your GP will request an appointment with one of the paediatric opthalmologists at Addenbrooke's, however an NHS referral will not guarantee that a patient is seen by a consultant. If you would like your child to be seen by my team in particular, you can ask your GP to make the referral to me, and this can also be arranged for patients not based in the local area.