Areas We Serve
Eye Surgeon for Epsom Patients
Epsom is a straight fifteen-minute run north up the A24 to Spire St Anthony's Hospital, where Miss Tina Khanam, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, holds her clinics and operating lists. Cataract surgery, lens replacement, laser vision correction and corneal treatment are all carried out there, with free parking and no need to go into London.
Cataract, Lens & Laser Eye Surgery for Epsom Patients
Epsom sits at the top of Surrey with the A24 running north through Ewell and Stoneleigh to North Cheam, which puts Spire St Anthony's about fifteen minutes away. It is one of the most straightforward journeys in the catchment — largely a single road — and that matters when you consider that a full treatment pathway means an initial consultation, the surgery, a next-day check and two or three later reviews.
Miss Khanam is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon holding FRCOphth, with over twenty years in ophthalmology. She performs cataract surgery and refractive lens exchange, LASIK, SMILE, Presbyond and ICL, and treats corneal conditions including keratoconus with cross-linking, CAIRS and transplant surgery. She does the operating herself and reviews you personally at each stage.
Epsom and Ewell has one of the older population profiles in Surrey, and cataract surgery dominates the local caseload. There is also a steady stream of patients in their late forties and fifties asking about reading vision — presbyopia rather than cataract — for whom Presbyond laser blended vision or lens exchange is usually the relevant conversation.
Your Nearest Clinic from Epsom
Getting here
By car, follow the A24 north from Epsom through Ewell and Stoneleigh to the North Cheam junction, then continue on London Road — Spire St Anthony's is at number 801, around fifteen minutes. The A232 via Ewell village is an alternative route. From the M25, junction 9 at Leatherhead feeds directly onto the A24.
By rail, Epsom station is served by South Western Railway and Southern, with services to London Waterloo and London Victoria and a short hop north to Ewell West, Stoneleigh and Worcester Park. Worcester Park is the closest station to the hospital, with a short taxi ride at the end.
Parking
Free patient parking on site at Spire St Anthony's, with no time limits. There is no Congestion Charge or ULEZ crossing anywhere on the A24 route from Epsom.
Postcodes served: KT17, KT18, KT19
Treatments Available to Epsom 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 Epsom patients
Why Epsom Patients Choose Us
- Fifteen minutes north on the A24 — essentially one road, and easy for someone to drive you
- Free parking on site, with no charges or zones between Epsom and the hospital
- Presbyond and refractive lens exchange for reading vision, not only cataract surgery
- The same consultant performs your surgery and every follow-up review
- A date chosen to suit you rather than allocated from a waiting list
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 Epsom
Epsom is a Surrey market town best known for the Derby and, historically, for the mineral springs that gave Epsom salts their name. It has a genuine town centre around the Clock Tower and the Ashley Centre, a large amount of green space at Epsom Common and the Downs, and a settled, comparatively affluent and comparatively older population. Ewell, Stoneleigh and Ashtead all fall within easy reach and share the same route north.
Epsom Hospital is part of Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, which also runs St Helier in Carshalton — the same trust that serves much of this catchment. Routine cataract waiting times move through the year and are best checked with the trust directly. Most Epsom patients who go private do so to fix a date, to keep one named surgeon throughout, or because they want a multifocal or extended-depth-of-focus lens that the NHS does not routinely provide.
Local landmarks and reference points
- Epsom Downs Racecourse, home of the Derby
- Epsom Clock Tower and the High Street
- The Ashley Centre
- Epsom Common and Horton Country Park
- The A24 corridor through Ewell and Stoneleigh
Questions from Epsom Patients
About fifteen minutes: straight north on the A24 through Ewell and Stoneleigh to 801 London Road, North Cheam. From the M25, leave at junction 9.
Epsom Hospital provides NHS ophthalmology through the Epsom & St Helier trust and does so competently. This is not a quality comparison — the differences are that you choose your surgery date, you have one named consultant from start to finish, and the full range of intraocular lenses is available to you.
Most likely presbyopia, the normal age-related loss of focusing range that begins in the mid-forties. Presbyond laser blended vision and refractive lens exchange both address it. A consultation will confirm the cause and check for any early lens changes at the same time.
Usually within a few weeks of the consultation, and the date is chosen around your commitments. Second-eye surgery normally follows a few weeks after the first once that eye has settled.
No. You must not drive yourself after eye surgery and will need someone to collect you. Given the fifteen-minute journey this is usually easy to arrange, and the hospital has free parking for whoever brings you.
No. You can book a consultation directly, and we will write to your GP afterwards with your consent.
More general questions are answered on our patient FAQs page.
Book a Consultation
Epsom patients are seen at Spire St Anthony's Hospital, Worcester Park — 15 minutes by car. No GP referral is required, and you will see Miss Tina Khanam personally.