Eye care - ophthalmology

About our service

The Ophthalmology team provides a specialist Ophthalmology service for medical conditions relating to the eye across all three hospital sites:

Pinderfields Hospital

Dewsbury and District Hospital

Pontefract Hospital

The services we offer include:

Medical and surgical ophthalmology services
Elective and emergency or on call services - with the acute care ophthalmology clinic via referrals only covering all four hospitals: Dewsbury, Pinderfields, Pontefract and Fieldhead
General ophthalmology clinics
Oculoplastics and lacrimal services - including nurse-led cyst and lacrimal clinics
Cornea and anterior segment services - including retrieval of eyes for donation
Glaucoma clinics - being one of the national centres offering selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT)
Macular clinics
Medical retinal and uveitis clinics
Diabetic virtual screening clinics
Paediatric ophthalmology - including retinopathy of prematurity screening and strabismus. We work closely with the Teachers for children with visual impairment
Cataract clinics, biometry services and pre-operative assessments
Laser clinics - including cyclodiode, Nd:YAG, SLT, PASCAL and argon lasers
Orthoptic services
Optometrist-led clinics – glaucoma clinics and macular degeneration
Eye Clinic Liaison Officers (ECLO) – support services

Ophthalmic imaging - optical coherence tomography (OCT), anterior and posterior segment photography, fundus fluorescein (FFA) and indocyanine green angiography (ICGA), B-scan ultrasound, high frequency ultrasound and biomicroscopy (HFUBM)

What our patients say

Patients say

Care and treatment was excellent

Patients say

Very caring towards mum

Patients say

Clinic was prompt, all staff were pleasant and friendly.

Patients say

Details of every stage. What was happening and why and I was put at ease.

Patients say

The appointment was on time, Happy with everything.

The team

There are nine Consultant Ophthalmologists a number of Associate Specialist/Specialty doctors and a Training Doctor in the department.

We cover a wide range of ophthalmology - general and sub-specialties including glaucoma, paediatric ophthalmology, diabetes mellitus, age-related macular degeneration, cornea and anterior segment, oculoplastics, neuro-ophthalmology, medical retina and uveitis services. However, we do not have vitreo-retinal or orbital surgical services.

Consultant Ophthalmologists

**The team**
Medical Retina/Wet Macular Degeneration/Clinical Lead	Mr Atul Varma
Cornea and Anterior Segment	Mr Andrew Chung
Cornea and Anterior Segment	Mr Prateek Agarwal
Medical Retina/Uveitis/Wet Macular Degeneration/Royal College Tutor	Mr Narendra Dhingra
Paediatric Ophthalmology/Adult Squint	Mr Jacobus Pauw
Paediatric Ophthalmology/Adult Squint	Miss Aabgina Shafi
Oculoplastics & Lacrimal	Ms Carolyn Atherley
Glaucoma	Mrs Madhu Nagar
Glaucoma	Mr Rahul Yadav
Associate Specialists:	Mr Vittaldas Pai
	Mr Ezzedin Luhishi
Staff Grade/Specialty Doctors:	Mrs Rajini Manoharan
	Dr Barathi Rajendran
	Dr Zia Idris
	Dr Neha Mithal
	Dr Reema Gupta
	Dr Deepa Upasani
	Dr Awni Aburamadan
Senior Nurses:	Senior Sister Jane Hopkins
	Sister Melanie Hannay
	Sister Sharon Draper
	Charge Nurse Brian Horsfall
Optometrists:	Jagdeep Singh
	Iziegbe Udugbezi
	Ruth Hogan
	Rehman Akudi
	Louise Berry
Orthoptists	Sara Lewis
	Aqsa Ali
	Gillian Sowerby
	Helen Sach
	Ashleigh Toft
Medical Photographers	Alex Buchanan
	Jay Bex
Eye Clinic Liaison Officers:	Moira Horsfield (Pontefract General Infirmary)
	Nicki Rowe (Dewsbury District Hospital)

Patient Services Manager	Sue Barron
Assistant Patient Services Manager	Rebecca Lupton