Initial consultation price:
£225
Your private health insurance
Circle Health Group works with all major UK health insurance providers. Simply let your provider know your chosen hospital to begin your treatment journey.
About Mr Prateek Agarwal
Clinical Interests
His main fields of interest are refractive cataract surgery with premium IOLs, PRK, LASIK, SMILE, ICL’s, and cornea transplantation. Mr Agarwal offers refractive lens exchange as well as small incision cataract surgery with torics, trifocals and extended depth of focus intraocular lenses, as well as the full range of modern refractive procedures including SMILE, LASIK, advanced surface ablation and implantable contact lenses (ICL).
Professional Memberships
- Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons
- Member, British Society of Refractive Surgery
- Member, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
- Fellow, Royal College of Ophthalmologists London
- Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow, Ophthalmology
- Member, United Kingdom and Irish Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Professional Profile
Mr Prateek Agarwal is a highly respected Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon who is based at Lancaster. He is renowned for his expertise in laser eye surgery, refractive cataract surgery (premium intraocular lenses) LASIK, SMILE procedures, and also specialises in keratoconus and cornea transplantation.
Mr Agarwal is one of the few surgeons to have received qualifications from all three Royal Colleges of United Kingdom and is on the specialist register for Ophthalmology. He is one of the few to perform more than 2000 surgeries every year. Mr Agarwal received the Best Surgical Video Award at the 2022 United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery for his excellent surgical technique in the management of a complex case. He received an Honourable Mention Award in 2019 for his work on pinhole implants at the Annual Congress of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeries in San Diego.
His main fields of interest are refractive cataract surgery with premium IOLs, PRK, LASIK, SMILE, ICL’s, and cornea transplantation. Mr Agarwal offers refractive lens exchange as well as small incision cataract surgery with torics, trifocals and extended depth of focus intraocular lenses, as well as the full range of modern refractive procedures including SMILE, LASIK, advanced surface ablation and implantable contact lenses (ICL).
After qualifying in medicine in 2006, Mr Agarwal completed a master of surgery residency programme based at India’s highly esteemed Aravind Eye Hospital and Post-Graduate Institute of Ophthalmology in 2009. He later undertook a fellowship at the University Hospital Bern, Switzerland, specialising in cornea and external diseases followed by further training in laser eye surgery at the Barraquer Eye Institute in Barcelona. Mr Agarwal joined as a cornea, cataract and refractive surgeon at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic with further training on SMILE in 2017. He then relocated to the UK where he was appointed as a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and began a consultancy position within the NHS.
Mr Agarwal is a Substantive Consultant at the University Hospital of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust based at Lancaster, with a main interest in Cornea and Refractive surgery. He is an academic lecturer, examiner, and a tutor and has 25 publications to his name in Peer Reviewed Journals. He has an active presence as a speaker at national and international Congress of repute on cataract and refractive surgery. He is the chief educational supervisor for trainees at his trust. He is also an examiner for Royal College of Ophthalmologists Exam and for Laser Refractive Surgery Exam conducted by the Royal College.
Mr Agarwal currently sees private patients at the Lancaster Private Hospital, Lancashire.
Awards and Honours
- Best Video Award at United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeries (Nov 2022)
- Best Award for the Cornea Day Session at European Society of Cataract and Refractive surgeries ESCRS for the Novel Surgical technique of Fixing Migrating Intracorneal Rings (Jan 2020)
- Honourable Mention Award for the Xtrafocus Pinhole Intraocular Lens Presentation at American Society Of Cataract And Refractive Surgeries, ASCRS San Diego (2019)
- GOLD MEDAL for Contribution in the Field of Ophthalmology and Refractive Surgery Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society Of India IIRSI New Delhi (2019)
- Runner Up Award for the Surgical Video Competition, Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society Of India (IIRSI) New Delhi (2019)
- Award from Delhi Ophthalmological Society 2018 for the academic excellence and outstanding contribution (2018)
- Young Entrepreneur Awarded, Times of India (2013)
- Asia ARVO Travel Grant for Abstract Presentation ASIA ARVO CONGRESS (2011)
Professional Website
