Mr Shafiq is a Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in cataract surgery. He has been a Consultant since 2001, mainly based in Newcastle, England. In that time he has performed thousands of cataract operations, with a reputation for high quality and affability.
He was an NHS consultant until early in 2023, when the opportunity arose to increase his work as a Synaptik cataract surgeon on the Isle of Man, reducing the waiting list for cataract surgery.
Since March 2022, he has performed over 1200 cataract operations at Nobles Hospital. He will be a regular Consultant at Nobles and is happy to see patients privately for cataract surgery consultation ,prior potential surgery.
Mr Shafiq maintains his work in Newcastle, working at Newmedica Newcastle, an independent provider of NHS cataract surgery. He has extremely high throughput of cataract surgery of at least 25 operations per week. Therefore, Manx residents have the opportunity to see a high quality , high volume surgeon with an established reputation, who can provide a high quality service here on the Isle of Man. He is maintaining his skills to the highest degree by performing very large numbers of operations in the UK.
Mr Shafiq has a cataract surgery website for patients in Newcastle. This website is thorough, detailing his nationally recorded complication rates (which are extremely low) as well as explaining the types of lens that can be offered privately to optimise the outcome of cataract surgery depending on the eye itself and a person’s lifestyle needs.
newcastlecataractsurgery.com 