Ophthalmic medicine
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Ophthalmology (eye) services are provided at St George’s Hospital by Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Moorfields is the leading provider of eye health services in the UK and a world-class centre for ophthalmic research and education. It has a reputation, developed over two centuries, for providing the highest quality ophthalmic care.
Moorfields Eye Centre at St George’s Hospital is one of 23 locations in which Moorfields provides services, ensuring that people can get expert eye care closer to where they live and work.
Because of its unique patient case-mix and the number of patients it treats across all its locations, Moorfields is able to sub-divide its eye services into several specialist departments, which allows its clinicians to develop expertise in particular ophthalmic sub-specialties.
Moorfields provides both outpatient appointment and surgery for the following sub-specialty eye services at St George’s:
Adnexal | For treatments for the accessories or anatomical parts attached to the eyeball, such as the eyelids, extraocular muscles, orbit and tear glands |
Cataract | A common eye condition, in which the lens becomes progressively opaque, resulting in blurred vision |
External disease and corneal | For conditions related to the outside of the eyeball, including the cornea, iris and sclera (the tough outer layer of the eye), especially infective, allergic and auto-immune eye conditions and those requiring corneal grafts to improve vision |
General ophthalmology | Treatment for general eye problems, including those that might need referral to one of our more specialist services |
Glaucoma | For treatments for the signs and symptoms of this common condition, including increased pressure in the eyeball, which can cause gradual loss of sight if left untreated |
Medical retina | Provides medical treatments for conditions at the back of the eye, using drugs, eye drops or lasers, and including diabetic screening and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an increasingly common eye condition, especially among older people, in which central vision gradually worsens |
Paediatric ophthalmology | Services for children’s eye conditions |
Strabismus and neuro-ophthlamology | Treats squints and visual problems related to the nervous system |
Vitreo-retinal | Provides treatments for conditions at the back of the eye that require surgical interventions, including retinal detachments |
Ophthalmology outpatient services are located on the ground floor in Lanesborough Wing at St George’s Hospital with a small number of outpatient procedures and pre- assessment clinics completed on the 5th floor. The day case ward and the eye operating theatres are on the 5th floor of the Lanesborough wing in the Duke Elder Ward.
Moorfields also provides services for south London residents at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton and at Bridge Lane Health Centre in Battersea as follows:
Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton – outpatient appointments and surgery
Cataract
A common eye condition, in which the lens becomes progressively opaque, resulting in blurred vision
Glaucoma
For treatments for the signs and symptoms of this common condition, including increased pressure in the eyeball, which can cause gradual loss of sight if left untreated
Teddington Memorial Hospital – outpatient appointments only
General Ophthalmology
Treatment for general eye problems, including those that might need referral to one of our more specialist services
Glaucoma
For treatments for the signs and symptoms of this common condition, including increased pressure in the eyeball, which can cause gradual loss of sight if left untreated
Contact details
St George's Hospital
0208 725 1794
Queen Mary's hospital
Appointments (the e-Referrals Service)
0845 608 8888
Appointments (Call centre)
020 8487 6290
Telephone
020 8487 6394
Secretaries
020 8487 6330
Outpatients’ main number
020 8487 6287
Fax 020 8487 6304
- GP Emergency Admission to St George’s hospital can walk in to the Moorfields clinic between 9am to 5pm.
- After 5pm you needed to have attended the general A&E at St Georges who would have given you the right direction.
- GPs are aware of this system.
- A&E at Moorfields at 162, City Road, London EC1V 2PD is open all hours like a normal A&E but for eye emergencies only.
Opening hours
Moorfields Hospital Clinics
General ophthalmology clinic
Monday
Cataract clinic
Wednesday
Glaucoma clinic
Friday
Kingston Hospital Clinics
Adult clinic and orthoptist clinic
Monday 8.30am - 12.30pm
Paediatric eye clinic
Alternative Tuesdays 9.00am – 4.45pm
Paediatric clinic and orthoptist clinics
Adult clinic on alternate weeks
Thursday 8.30am - 5.00pm
Adult clinic and Nurse led visual fields clinic
Friday 1.30 – 5.00pm
Key staff
- Catherine Logan - Clinical Nurse Manager/Ophthalmic Lead Nurse
- Mr John Beare - Consultant Ophthalmologist, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Chris Benjamin - Staff Grade, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr ZM Haque - Staff Grade, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Mr Ahmed Dabbagh - Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Brenda Toocaram - Head Orthoptist for Paediatrics, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Elaine Burke - Senior Orthoptist for Paediatrics and General, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Mr Danny Morrison - Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust
- Karla Tocher - Head Orthoptist for Paediatrics, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust
- Miss Rathie Rajendran - Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital at St George's
- Mr Parham Azarbod - Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital at St George's
- Dr Manisha Das - Locum, Moorfields Eye Hospital at St George's
- Harry Chana - Optomerist, Moorfields Eye Hospital at St George's
- Marketa Cilkova - Optomerist, Moorfields Eye Hospital at St George's
- Anish Jindal - Optomerist, Moorfields Eye Hospital at St George's