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Dr Vikas Chadha

Dr Vikas Chadha

Ophthalmology 06041725

  • Bupa Platinum consultant
  • Fee assured
  • Open Referral network
  • Cataract Full Pathway provider

    I offer Bupa customers standard cataract surgery on the Full Pathway package option at Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital .

    This package includes your appointments before and after surgery, as well as your surgery and mono-focal lenses. It means you won’t use up your out-patient benefit or receive any additional bills from your surgeon (or anaesthetist, if you need one) for eligible treatment.

    Please call the Bupa Eye Care team to find out more about and to pre-authorise your treatment on 0345 600 7267.

Overview
Bupa Platinum consultant
Fee assured
Open Referral network
Cataract Full Pathway provider

I offer Bupa customers standard cataract surgery on the Full Pathway package option at Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital .

This package includes your appointments before and after surgery, as well as your surgery and mono-focal lenses. It means you won’t use up your out-patient benefit or receive any additional bills from your surgeon (or anaesthetist, if you need one) for eligible treatment.

Please call the Bupa Eye Care team to find out more about and to pre-authorise your treatment on 0345 600 7267.

Specialises in

  • Medical
  • Oculoplastic surgery
  • Surgical
  • Surgical lacrimal

Offers

  • Face-to-face consultations
  • Video and telephone consultations

About me

Mr Vikas Chadha has been a Consultant in the West of Scotland since 2009 and is now a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Tennent Instutite of Ophthalmology at Gartnavel General Hospital.

He is an experienced cataract surgeon having performed thousands of cataract surgeries. He rigorously audits his results and has found his success rate well above the UK national standards with an overall complication rate of less than 1 percent.

He is one of two Consultants responsible for delivering the Scottish Ocular Oncology Service that is centrally funded by the National Services Division, a division of National Services Scotland, a national NHS Board. This runs in conjunction with and complimentary to his tertiary referral oculoplastics service. His service also delivers general ophthalmology clinics and cataract operating lists. His service runs an International Fellowship programme where doctors from around the world are given training in the niche areas or ocular oncology and orbital surgery.

Mr Chadha is the Training Programme Director for ophthalmology in the West of Scotland. He is also Chair of the Curriculum Sub-committee at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London and is responsible for the ophthalmology curriculum across the UK. He is an examiner for both Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He is the convener and organizer of the annual Glasgow FRCOphth Prep Course and a faculty member on various other seminars and courses. He is also Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.

His previous roles include Clinical Lead for Oculoplastics at NHGGC, College Tutor at Gartnavel General Hospital, Convener for the part 2 of the Royal College of Glasgow Fellowship examinations, Executive committee member of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society (BOPSS) and College Tutor at Hairmyres Hospital.

Mr Chadha has over 45 peer-reviewed publications in international journals, has co-authored book chapters and is regularly invited to review papers for many leading ophthalmology journals. He has been an invited speaker at a number of national and international meetings including the International Society of Ocular Oncology Bi-annual Conference, Royal College of Ophthalmologists Congress, British Oculoplastic Surgery Society Annual meeting and the Scottish Ophthalmological Club Meeting.

Areas of interest

Cataract surgery; Eyelid surgery (including rodent ulcers, blepharoplasty, ptosis surgery for droopy eyelids, ectropion, entropion, lumps and bumps etc); Lacrimal surgery (including watery eye); Thyroid eye disease; Eye Cancers (including melanoma, suspicious freckles, eye surface lesions, eyelid basal cell carcinoma and other cancers)

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Procedures completed

  • C1210

    Excision of lesion of eyelid - (5-50)

    Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital (5-50)

  • C7122

    Ultrasound phacoemulsification of cataract, with lens implant - unilateral (including topical or local anaesthetic) - (5-50)

  • C7340

    YAG (Yttrium Aluminium Garnett) laser photodisruption of posterior capsule of lens (including laser capsulotomy) - unilateral - (5-50)

    Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital (1-5)

  • C1810

    Correction of ptosis of eyelid - simple (including tarsomullerectomy) - (1-5)

  • C1812

    Correction of ptosis of eyelid - complex - (1-5)

  • S0642

    Excision of lesion of skin or subcutaneous tissue - four or more, Head & Neck (excluding lipoma) - (1-5)

    Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital (1-5)

  • C2510

    Canaliculo-dacryocysto-rhinostomy (including intubation) - (1-5)

  • C1522

    Correction of entropion - lower lid, including graft/flap - (1-5)

  • C0610

    Biopsy of lesion of orbit - (1-5)

    Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital (1-5)

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