Areas We Serve
Eye Surgeon for Central London Patients
For anyone living or working in central London, Miss Tina Khanam's Harley Street clinic is a short journey from almost anywhere in zone 1. Consultant-led cataract surgery, lens replacement, laser vision correction and corneal treatment — with the diagnostic workup completed in a single appointment, which is usually the part that is hard to fit around a working day.
Cataract, Lens & Laser Eye Surgery for Central London Patients
The practical problem with private eye care for central London workers is rarely distance — it is the number of appointments. A course of treatment involves an initial consultation with a full set of scans, the procedure itself, a next-day check, and reviews at around two and six weeks. Squeezing five separate visits into a working life is what puts people off, and it is why the diagnostic side here is condensed into one visit rather than spread across two or three.
Miss Khanam is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon holding FRCOphth, with more than twenty years in ophthalmology. She performs cataract surgery and refractive lens exchange, LASIK, SMILE, Presbyond and ICL implantation, and treats corneal disease including keratoconus. She conducts the consultation, performs the surgery, and carries out the follow-up reviews personally.
Central London's caseload skews younger and more refractive than the suburban sites — a lot of people in their late twenties to forties who have worn contact lenses for fifteen years and want out, and a growing number in their late forties dealing with the first loss of reading vision. Screen-related dry eye is another recurring theme, and it is worth having assessed properly rather than treated with supermarket drops.
Your Nearest Clinic from Central London
Getting here
The Harley Street clinic sits just north of Cavendish Square in Marylebone. Regent's Park on the Bakerloo line is three minutes away on foot; Oxford Circus, Great Portland Street, Bond Street and Baker Street are all within a ten-minute walk. From the City, the Central line to Oxford Circus takes around ten minutes; from Canary Wharf, the Elizabeth line to Bond Street is about fifteen.
From south London, the District line runs to Baker Street and the Northern line to Warren Street. Waterloo, Victoria, King's Cross St Pancras, Euston and Paddington are all fifteen minutes or less by Underground, which makes the clinic straightforward to combine with a mainline journey in from outside London.
Parking
The clinic is inside the Congestion Charge zone and street parking is metered with short limits. Cavendish Square car park is the nearest sizeable option. Public transport is almost always the easier choice — and for surgery, patients often prefer the Worcester Park or Gatwick Park sites, where parking is free and you can be collected by car.
Postcodes served: W1, WC1, WC2, EC1, EC2, SW1, NW1
Treatments Available to Central London Patients
Every procedure is performed personally by Miss Tina Khanam. Full details, including costs, recovery and suitability, are on each treatment page.
Conditions we treat for Central London patients
Why Central London Patients Choose Us
- Full diagnostic workup completed in a single appointment rather than spread over several
- Lunchtime and after-work slots designed around a central London working day
- Three minutes from Regent's Park station; ten from Bond Street on the Elizabeth line
- Consultant-performed surgery — no handover to a different surgeon on the day
- Option to consult in town and have the procedure at a site with free parking
About Your Eye Surgeon
Miss Tina Khanam is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon specialising in LASIK, Laser Eye, Cataract & Lens Replacement Surgery. She holds FRCOphth, Cert LRS, PG Dip CRS and is a member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons. She performs every procedure personally, from the initial assessment through surgery to your final follow-up.
Eye Care in Central London
Central London's eye-care demand is shaped by how people here work: long hours on screens, air-conditioned offices, and contact lenses worn far longer each day than manufacturers intend. Dry eye and contact lens intolerance come up constantly. The medical district in Marylebone has served this population since the nineteenth century, and its proximity to the West End and the City is precisely why appointments here are so often booked at lunchtime or after six.
Central London is the best-served part of the country for NHS ophthalmology, with Moorfields Eye Hospital in Old Street setting the national standard. Patients who go private in zone 1 are almost never doing so out of doubt about NHS quality. They are doing so because of scheduling, because they want the same surgeon throughout, or because the treatment they want — laser vision correction, ICL, Presbyond, premium lens implants — is not an NHS service at all.
Local landmarks and reference points
- Cavendish Square and Marylebone High Street
- Regent's Park and Great Portland Street stations
- BBC Broadcasting House and Portland Place
- The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall
- Bond Street and the Elizabeth line
Questions from Central London Patients
Lunchtime and after-work appointments are a routine part of the central London clinic — a large share of patients here are booking around an office day rather than taking time off.
Typically four to five per eye: consultation with scans, the procedure, a next-day check, then reviews at around two and six weeks. The consultation and all diagnostics are combined into one visit so the total is as low as it can reasonably be.
Yes, and it is worth having properly assessed rather than self-treating. Dry eye has several distinct causes — including meibomian gland dysfunction, which does not respond to ordinary artificial tears — and the treatment differs depending on which you have. It also affects whether you are suitable for laser surgery.
Either is possible. Central London is convenient for consulting; for surgery, many patients prefer Spire St Anthony's in Worcester Park or Spire Gatwick Park, where parking is free and being collected by car is straightforward. It is the same consultant at every site.
After laser vision correction most people are back at a desk within a day or two, though screen work can feel tiring at first. After cataract or lens surgery, a few days is more typical. You will be given specific advice for your job at the consultation.
No. Consultations are booked directly, and we will write to your GP afterwards if you would like your records kept complete.
More general questions are answered on our patient FAQs page.
Book a Consultation
Central London patients are seen at Harley Street, London — 10–20 minutes from most of zones 1 and 2. No GP referral is required, and you will see Miss Tina Khanam personally.