- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Awaiting verification
- Open Referral network
- Cataract Full Pathway
provider
I offer Bupa customers standard cataract surgery on the Full Pathway package option at Ramsay Pinehill Hospital, Lister Hospital, Hertford County 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.
I offer Bupa customers standard cataract surgery on the Full Pathway package option at Ramsay Pinehill Hospital, Lister Hospital, Hertford County 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
- Oculoplastic surgery
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Miss Shafi studied Medicine at Cambridge University and graduated with degrees in
Physiology (First class) and Medicine. She undertook specialist Ophthalmic training in the West Midlands Deanery gaining a wide range of general ophthalmology experience before undertaking subspecialist training in Oculoplastic surgery.
Her subspecialist expertise in Oculoplastic surgery developed during advanced subspecialty training in Birmingham and Coventry followed by a prestigious Oculoplastic and Orbital fellowship at Moorefield’s Eye Hospital in London.
Miss Shafi is a full-time Consultant Oculoplastic Ophthalmologist at East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust having been appointed in August 2016. She is the lead clinician for the Oculoplastic service in this region. She specialises in all aspects of eyelid, lacrimal (tear drainage), eye socket and orbital disease. She also has a regular general clinic and cataract operating list.
In addition to her clinical practice, Miss Shafi has published many research papers, presented her work at numerous national and international conferences where she has been awarded several prizes. She is responsible for ophthalmology training in East & North Hertfordshire and is a faculty member and lecturer on courses held to teach cataract and oculoplastic surgical techniques.
Areas of interest
Oculoplastics:
- All eyelid disease including cysts; eyelid lumps and bumps; chalazia; periocular skin cancer; ingrowing eyelashes (trichiasis); eyelid twitching (blepharospasm); eyelid reconstruction; eyelid hooding (dermatochalasis); eyelid malposition
(ectropion; entropion correction); lower lid tightening; drooping lids (ptosis surgery); droopy eyebrows (brow ptosis; brow lifts); facial palsy restorative surgery to eyelids and brows
- All causes of watering and irritable eyes
- Thyroid eye disease
- Patients who have, or want to consider using, an artificial eye
- Orbital disease (including causes of bulgy or staring eyes)
General Ophthalmology:
- General ophthalmology: e.g. reduced vision
- Cataract surgery
Medical secretaries
- Leanne Brigden
- Lister Hospital Coreys Mill Lane Stevenage SG1 4AB
- 07584 907494
- 07584 907494
- leannebrigden@nhs.net
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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C2220
Biopsy of lesion of eyelid - (1-5)
Ramsay Pinehill Hospital (1-5)
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C1230
Curettage/cryotherapy of lesion of eyelid - (1-5)
Ramsay Pinehill Hospital (1-5)
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S0602
Primary excision of malignant lesion - Head & Neck - (1-5)
Ramsay Pinehill Hospital (1-5)
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C7340
Yag laser photodisruption of posterior capsule of lens (including laser capsulotomy) - unilateral - (1-5)
Ramsay Pinehill Hospital (1-5)
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C1810
Correction of ptosis of eyelid - simple (including tarsomullerectomy) - (1-5)
Ramsay Pinehill Hospital (1-5)