Areas We Serve
Eye Surgeon for Cheam Patients
Spire St Anthony's Hospital stands on London Road at the North Cheam end of the A24 — barely a mile from Cheam Village. Miss Tina Khanam, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, holds her clinics and operating lists there, so Cheam residents can have cataract surgery, lens replacement or laser vision correction without leaving SM3.
Cataract, Lens & Laser Eye Surgery for Cheam Patients
Cheam is about as close to Spire St Anthony's as it is possible to live. The hospital sits at 801 London Road, a few minutes from Cheam Village up Malden Road, and closer still from the North Cheam end. For a treatment that involves an initial consultation, surgery, a next-day check and two or three later reviews, that proximity is worth more than any single feature of the clinic itself.
Miss Khanam is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon holding FRCOphth, with more than two decades in ophthalmology. She performs cataract surgery and refractive lens exchange, laser vision correction, and corneal procedures including cross-linking and CAIRS. Crucially she does the operating herself — there is no handover to a different surgeon on the day, which in high-volume private ophthalmology is increasingly the norm rather than the exception.
The village side of Cheam has an older, long-settled population, and cataract surgery is by some distance the most common reason people from SM2 and SM3 come to the clinic. Second cataracts — posterior capsule opacification, treated with a few minutes of YAG laser — are another frequent local referral, often from patients who had their original surgery years ago elsewhere.
Your Nearest Clinic from Cheam
Getting here
By car from Cheam Village, take Malden Road north to the A24 London Road and turn towards North Cheam; the hospital is on the left at 801 London Road. It is a five-minute drive. From the Sutton side, the A232 Cheam Road joins London Road at the North Cheam roundabout.
By rail, Cheam station runs Southern services to London Victoria and to Sutton. The hospital is about a ten-minute taxi ride from the station, or reachable on the 470 and 213 bus routes along London Road. Many local patients simply walk part of the way in good weather.
Parking
Free patient parking directly outside the hospital entrance — no meters and no restrictions, which is a relief compared with parking around Cheam Village on a Saturday.
Postcodes served: SM2, SM3
Treatments Available to Cheam 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 Cheam patients
Why Cheam Patients Choose Us
- Your nearest private hospital is a five-minute drive — the shortest journey of any area we serve except Worcester Park
- Free parking on site, and no Congestion Charge or ULEZ anywhere on the route
- Cataract and lens replacement surgery performed personally by your consultant
- YAG laser treatment for clouding after previous cataract surgery, done in minutes as an outpatient
- Follow-up appointments that take an hour of your day rather than most of it
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 Cheam
Cheam divides fairly neatly into two: the conservation-area village around Cheam Road and The Broadway, with its Tudor and Georgian buildings and independent shops, and the busier North Cheam end where the A24 and A232 meet. The village population is notably older and long-established — people who have been in the same house for thirty or forty years — which is reflected directly in the clinic, where cataract and lens work dominates.
Cheam sits in the London Borough of Sutton, and NHS ophthalmology locally runs through Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, with St Helier Hospital in Carshalton the main site. Waiting times for routine cataract surgery vary and change through the year. The most common reasons Cheam patients choose private care are being able to pick a date, keeping one surgeon throughout, and having access to the full range of intraocular lenses rather than a standard monofocal.
Local landmarks and reference points
- Cheam Village and Cheam station
- Spire St Anthony's Hospital, 801 London Road
- Nonsuch Park and Nonsuch Mansion
- Whitehall, the Tudor house on Malden Road
- The North Cheam roundabout on the A24
Questions from Cheam Patients
About a mile — five minutes by car up Malden Road to the A24. The address is 801 London Road, Worcester Park, Sutton SM3 9DW.
Very likely yes. Clouding of the membrane behind the lens implant, called posterior capsule opacification, is common years after cataract surgery and is treated with YAG laser — a painless outpatient procedure taking a few minutes, with no cutting and no recovery period.
The 470 and 213 bus routes run along London Road past the hospital. From Cheam Village it is walkable for some people, though on surgery day you will need someone to drive you home.
That is decided together at your consultation, based on your scans, your prescription and how you use your eyes. Options range from a standard monofocal to extended-depth-of-focus and multifocal lenses that reduce dependence on glasses. Each has trade-offs, and they are explained properly rather than sold.
Yes. Dry eye assessment and treatment, eyelid surgery including blepharoplasty and chalazion removal, and skin lesion removal around the eye are all available at the same hospital.
No. You can book a consultation directly, and we will write to your GP afterwards with your permission.
More general questions are answered on our patient FAQs page.
Book a Consultation
Cheam patients are seen at Spire St Anthony's Hospital — 5 minutes by car. No GP referral is required, and you will see Miss Tina Khanam personally.