- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Not in Open Referral network
- Cataract Full Pathway
provider
I offer Bupa customers standard cataract surgery on the Full Pathway package option at Spire Leeds 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 Spire Leeds 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
- Surgical
- Surgical lacrimal
About me
Mr Andrew Chung BSc(Hons) MBChB MRCS(Ed) FRCOphth
Cataract surgery
Corneal and external eye disease
Oculoplastic surgery
Special clinical interests:
Cataracts
General Ophthalmology
Cornea
Dry eyes
Oculoplastic (eyelid surgery) - in-/out-turning eyelids,
Watering eyes
Eyelid Inflammation/Blepharitis
Year of first medical qualification:
1996
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
- President – The North of England Ophthalmological Society (18-19)
- Vice President - Medical contact lens and ocular surface association (15-18)
- Honorary Senior Lecturer - University of Leeds
- Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (UK)
- Elected Council member - UK and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (UKISCRS) 2000-2014
- Ophthalmic representative for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists at British Standard Institute
- Member of Surgical Skills Faculty - the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (UK)
- Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)
- Member of American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)
- General Medical Council associates
- Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Professional profile:
Mr Chung graduated from the Medical School in the University of Leeds in 1996. He has undertaken both the basic and advanced surgical training in ophthalmology in the Yorkshire region. He further developed his sub-speciality interests in Cornea and Oculoplastic (Eyelid) surgery by undertaking a super specialised fellowship programme at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital & Leeds General Infirmary.
He is particularly well qualified, having performed in excess of 13000 ophthalmic operations (including over 5000 small-incision sutureless cataract/lens surgery and 4000 eyelid surgery). While he has been trained to manage all general eye conditions, he specialises in a range of surgery:
- Sutureless Cataract surgery (including advanced intra-ocular lens implantation)
- Corneal grafting (both full thickness and more advanced partial thickness lamellar grafting)
- Eyelid surgery - for droopy eyelid, in-turning/out-turning eyelids.
- Dry eyes
Areas of interest
State of the Art Advanced Small incision Sutureless CATARACT SURGERY; CATARACT SURGERY with specialist lens implants eg. Aspheric lens implants etc- **Fee assured for patients with private medical insurance ; Glaucoma; Oculoplastics (Eyelid); Dry Eyes; Corneal surgery / disease. General Ophthalmic Condition e.g. red eye, painful eye, loss of vision
Medical secretaries
- *Out-Patient appt booking only (Spire Leeds)
- Spire Leeds Hospital Jackson Avenue Leeds LS8 1NT
- 0113 218 5908
- Lisa Harrison (*appointment booking only)
- Spire Methley Park Hospital Methley Lane Methley Leeds LS26 9HG
- 01977 664217
- 01977 518518
- 01977 518518
- Lisa.Harrison@spirehealthcare.com
- Ms Venessa Sanderson - PA (Yorkshire Eye Hospital
- Optegra Yorkshire Eye Hospital 937 Harrogate Road Apperley Bridge West Yorkshire BD10 0RD
- 0845 456 1727
- 01274 612566
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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C1210
Excision of lesion of eyelid - (5-50)
Spire Leeds Hospital (5-50) Spire Methley Park Hospital (1-5)
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X3800
Ophthalmic local anaesthetic injection administered by operator - (5-50)
Spire Methley Park Hospital (1-5) Spire Leeds Hospital (1-5)
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C2910
Puncto-canaliculoplasty - (1-5)
Spire Leeds Hospital (1-5) Spire Methley Park Hospital (1-5)
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C7341
YAG (Yttrium Aluminium Garnett) laser photodisruption of posterior capsule of lens (including laser capsulotomy) - bilateral - (1-5)
Spire Leeds Hospital (1-5)
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C1522
Correction of entropion - lower lid, including graft/flap - (1-5)
Spire Leeds Hospital (1-5)
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