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Eye Surgeon for Surbiton Patients
Surbiton is one of the few places where both options are genuinely convenient: an 18-minute fast train into Waterloo for a Harley Street consultation, or a twenty-minute drive down the A240 to Spire St Anthony's for surgery closer to home. Miss Tina Khanam, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, works at both, and many KT6 patients use one for each.
Cataract, Lens & Laser Eye Surgery for Surbiton Patients
Surbiton's fast rail service into Waterloo — among the quickest of any south-west London suburb — makes central London consultations realistic in a way they are not for most of Surrey. A patient can leave the office, be seen at Harley Street, and be home for the evening. Surgery is a different matter: you cannot travel home unaccompanied afterwards, and follow-ups come thick and fast in the first fortnight. That is where Spire St Anthony's, twenty minutes south by car, earns its place.
Miss Khanam holds FRCOphth from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and has more than twenty years in ophthalmology. Her practice spans cataract surgery and refractive lens exchange, LASIK, SMILE, Presbyond and ICL implantation, and corneal disease including keratoconus. She performs all surgery personally and reviews you herself at each follow-up, whichever site you attend.
Surbiton's demographic — a large cohort of professionals in their thirties and forties, alongside an established older population around Berrylands and the Ewell Road — produces an unusually even split between refractive work and cataract surgery. The two pathways are quite different, and it is worth being assessed for both rather than assuming which applies.
Your Nearest Clinic from Surbiton
Getting here
By car to Spire St Anthony's, take Ewell Road (A240) south through Tolworth, continue past the Tolworth roundabout, then pick up the A232 east towards North Cheam and turn onto London Road (A24). Allow about twenty minutes. The A3 offers an alternative if the Ewell Road is congested.
By rail to Harley Street, Surbiton runs South Western Railway fast services to London Waterloo in around 18 minutes. From Waterloo, the Jubilee line to Bond Street or the Bakerloo line to Regent's Park brings you within a short walk of the clinic — usually 40 to 45 minutes door to door.
Parking
Free patient parking at Spire St Anthony's. Around Harley Street, parking is metered and the Congestion Charge applies on weekdays — another reason most Surbiton patients drive south for surgery and take the train north for consultations.
Postcodes served: KT5, KT6
Treatments Available to Surbiton 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 Surbiton patients
Why Surbiton Patients Choose Us
- Consult at Harley Street around your working day, then have surgery twenty minutes from home
- 18-minute fast train to Waterloo — genuinely practical for a central London appointment
- Free parking at the Worcester Park hospital, where the multiple follow-up visits happen
- Same consultant at both sites: your records and scans move with you
- Full refractive range — LASIK, SMILE, Presbyond and ICL — as well as cataract and lens surgery
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 Surbiton
Surbiton was built around its railway and still revolves around it — the Art Deco station is the town's landmark and the reason its housing has held its value. Victoria Road and Maple Road give it a proper town centre rather than a parade of shops, and the riverside at Seething Wells pulls people out at weekends. The population is heavily weighted towards commuting professionals, which shapes both what patients ask for and when they can be seen.
Surbiton sits in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, and NHS ophthalmology runs through Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Waiting times for routine cataract surgery vary and are worth checking directly. Laser vision correction and premium intraocular lenses are not routinely available on the NHS at all, so for refractive patients the question is not NHS versus private but which private route to take.
Local landmarks and reference points
- Surbiton station — the 1937 Art Deco building
- Victoria Road and Maple Road
- Seething Wells and the Thames towpath
- Berrylands and the Ewell Road (A240)
- The Tolworth roundabout on the A3
Questions from Surbiton Patients
Many Surbiton patients do both: consultation at Harley Street, which the 18-minute Waterloo train makes easy around work, then surgery and follow-ups at Spire St Anthony's twenty minutes away by car. It is the same consultant at both, so nothing is lost in the handover.
About twenty minutes via the A240 Ewell Road through Tolworth, then the A232 to North Cheam. Allow longer at peak times, when the A3 may be the better route.
Early morning and later appointments can usually be arranged, which is why a good proportion of Surbiton patients consult in central London — it fits around a Waterloo commute more easily than a midday drive south.
LASIK, SMILE and ICL are the main routes, and which suits you depends on your prescription, corneal thickness and corneal shape rather than on preference. Very high prescriptions or thin corneas often do better with ICL than with laser. The assessment settles it.
Usually not — it is far more often presbyopia, the normal age-related loss of focusing range. It can be addressed with Presbyond laser blended vision or refractive lens exchange, and the consultation will establish which is appropriate and whether any early lens changes are present.
No. Consultations are booked directly, and we will write to your GP afterwards if you would like.
More general questions are answered on our patient FAQs page.
Book a Consultation
Surbiton patients are seen at Spire St Anthony's Hospital, Worcester Park — 20 minutes by car. No GP referral is required, and you will see Miss Tina Khanam personally.