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Fee assured
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Verified account
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Cataract Full Pathway
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I offer Bupa customers standard cataract surgery on the Full Pathway package option at Nuffield Health Edinburgh Hospital, Vision Scotland - Edinburgh .
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 Nuffield Health Edinburgh Hospital, Vision Scotland - Edinburgh .
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
- Surgical retinal
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Manjit Mehat is an award-winning eye surgeon who specialises in cataract and retinal surgery, including floaters, macular hole, epiretinal membrane and retinal detachment surgery. He also manages patients for the medical treatment of retinal conditions, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease and blood vessel disorders of the retina.
Manjit has undertaken 8-years of advanced surgical and research training at the world renowed Moorfields Eye Hospital. This included a two-years retinal surgery fellowship where he performed complex retinal and cataract surgery.
Dr Mehat has research expertise in retinal disease with a particular focus on the application of gene and stem-cell therapy to treat blindness. He is currently chief surgeon for the first retinal gene therapy trial in Edinburgh. Manjit has also been a senior investigator in the world's first gene therapy trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2015) and more recently he was lead author for the first European trial for stem-cell transplantation for inherited macular degeneration.
Dr Mehat's NHS practice is currently based at the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavillion in Edinburgh and consults privately at Vision Scotland, Edinburgh Clinic and Spire Shawfair.
Areas of interest
Cataract surgery – premium and toric intraocular lenses; Complex cataract surgery including lens exchange; Floaters; Macular hole; Epiretinal membrane; Age-related macular degeneration; Diabetic retinopathy; Retinal vein occlusion
Medical secretaries
- Fleur Hansen
- 07761 061428
- fleur.hansen@edinburgheyesurgery.co.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
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Mr Manjit Mehat has worked with Dr Jan-Peter Koch at the following hospitals:
- Nuffield Health Edinburgh Hospital (1-5)
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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C7982
Pars plana vitrectomy with internal tamponade, scleral buckling and retinopexy with dissection or excision of epiretinal membrane/macular surgery - (5-50)
Vision Scotland - Edinburgh (1-5) Nuffield Health Edinburgh Hospital (1-5)
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C7122
Ultrasound phacoemulsification of cataract, with lens implant - unilateral (including topical or local anaesthetic) - (5-50)
Spire Murrayfield Hospital Edinburgh (1-5) Vision Scotland - Edinburgh (1-5)
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C7340
Yag laser photodisruption of posterior capsule of lens (including laser capsulotomy) - unilateral - (1-5)
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C7125
Ultrasound phacoemulsification of cataracts, with lens implant - bilateral (including topical or local anaesthetic) - (1-5)