Areas We Serve
Eye Surgeon for Sutton Patients
Spire St Anthony's Hospital is in the London Borough of Sutton, on London Road at North Cheam — about ten minutes from Sutton High Street. Miss Tina Khanam, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, runs her clinics and operating lists there, covering cataract surgery, lens replacement, laser vision correction and corneal disease.
Cataract, Lens & Laser Eye Surgery for Sutton Patients
Sutton residents have their private eye surgery in their own borough. Spire St Anthony's sits at 801 London Road, ten minutes north-west of the High Street along the A232 and A24, with free parking on site. For a course of treatment that runs to four or five appointments, the difference between a ten-minute drive and an hour into central London is substantial — and it is the follow-up appointments, not the surgery, where that really tells.
Miss Khanam holds FRCOphth from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists with more than twenty years in ophthalmology. She performs cataract and lens replacement surgery, laser vision correction including LASIK, SMILE and Presbyond, ICL implantation, and corneal procedures including cross-linking, CAIRS and transplant surgery — carrying out every operation personally.
Sutton is, unusually, a town where residents are already well informed about specialist medicine: the Royal Marsden's Sutton site and the Institute of Cancer Research are here, and local patients tend to arrive at consultations with sharper questions than average about who exactly will be performing their surgery and what the alternatives are. Those are the right questions, and they get straight answers.
Your Nearest Clinic from Sutton
Getting here
By car from Sutton High Street, take the A232 west along Cheam Road, continue through Cheam to the North Cheam junction, then turn onto London Road (A24) — the hospital is at 801 London Road, about ten minutes. From the M25, junctions 8 and 9 both feed onto the A24.
By rail, Sutton station is served by Southern and Thameslink, with direct trains to London Victoria, London Bridge and Blackfriars, and southbound services to Epsom and Dorking. The hospital is a ten-minute taxi ride, or reachable on the 213 and 470 bus routes along London Road.
Parking
Free patient parking on site at Spire St Anthony's, with no time limit — considerably easier than the multi-storey car parks around Sutton High Street, and there is no Congestion Charge or ULEZ crossing on the route.
Postcodes served: SM1, SM2
Treatments Available to Sutton 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 Sutton patients
Why Sutton Patients Choose Us
- The hospital is in your own borough — ten minutes from the High Street
- Free on-site parking with no time limits, which matters for longer diagnostic appointments
- Cataract, lens replacement, laser and full corneal surgery all at one local site
- Direct access to a named consultant who performs the surgery herself
- Straightforward for a relative to bring you in and collect you afterwards
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 Sutton
Sutton is a substantial south London town with a long High Street, good rail links in three directions, and a strong medical and research presence thanks to the Royal Marsden and the Institute of Cancer Research on its southern side. The residential streets towards Cheam and Belmont have an older, settled population; the town centre is younger and busier. The clinic's Sutton caseload leans heavily towards cataract and lens surgery.
NHS ophthalmology for Sutton is provided by Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, with St Helier Hospital in Carshalton the main local site. Cataract waiting times change through the year and are worth checking directly with the trust. Patients here most often choose private care for date certainty, for having one named surgeon from consultation to final review, and for the premium lens options — extended-depth-of-focus and multifocal implants — that are not routinely available on the NHS.
Local landmarks and reference points
- Sutton High Street and the Times Square centre
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton
- The Institute of Cancer Research
- Sutton station (Southern and Thameslink)
- Spire St Anthony's Hospital at North Cheam
Questions from Sutton Patients
Yes — it is in the London Borough of Sutton, at 801 London Road, Worcester Park, Sutton SM3 9DW. It sits at the North Cheam end of the A24, about ten minutes from Sutton High Street.
St Helier is the NHS hospital serving Sutton through the Epsom & St Helier trust. Spire St Anthony's is a private hospital. The practical differences are choosing your date, keeping the same consultant surgeon throughout, and having the full range of lens implants available.
Yes — the 213 and 470 routes run along London Road past the hospital. On surgery day, though, you will need someone to drive you home rather than taking the bus.
The operation itself is normally fifteen to twenty minutes per eye under local anaesthetic, and you go home the same day. You should plan to be at the hospital for two to three hours in total, and you will need someone to collect you.
That depends on the lens you choose. A standard monofocal usually leaves you needing reading glasses. Extended-depth-of-focus and multifocal lenses reduce that dependence considerably but have their own trade-offs, which are discussed properly at the consultation rather than glossed over.
No. Consultations are booked directly, and your GP will be written to afterwards if you would like.
More general questions are answered on our patient FAQs page.
Book a Consultation
Sutton patients are seen at Spire St Anthony's Hospital — 10 minutes by car. No GP referral is required, and you will see Miss Tina Khanam personally.