Mr Bimal Kumar
Mr Bimal Kumar is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Blakelands Hospital, Milton Keynes who specialises in Oculoplastic surgery.
Based At
NHS base
Former Consultant at Milton Keynes University Hospital (retired March 2022)
GMC Number
3437405
Clinical interests
Mr Kumar's subspecialist interest includes cataract surgery and oculoplastics.
He has extensive experience in managing various types of cataracts and using standard monofocal, toric and extended depth of focus (Edof) implants that can reduce dependence on spectacle wear. Toric implants can reduce astigmatism whilst the Edof implants (PureSee by J&J) allow patients to reduce dependence on spectacle wear for distance, intermediate and functional near vision (eg using the smart phone or seeing the prices on shopping items).
Mr Kumar also offers an oculoplastics service and manages lid entropion (lid turning inwards) , ectropion (lid turning outwards), ptosis (droopy lid), upper lid blepharoplasty (for excessive upper lid skin), watery eyes, and lid lumps and bumps.
Professional Memberships
Royal College of Ophthalmologists
British Oculoplastics Society (BOPSS)
UK Cataract and Refractive Surgery Society (UKISCRS)
Academic Background
MBBS (Syd Uni) 1989
FRCOphth 1993
FRCSEd 1993
Mr Kumar completed his ophthalmic training in Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and St Pauls Eye Unit, Liverpool and has done a corneoplastics fellowship in Perth, Western Australia as well as as a second oculoplastics fellowship in Maidstone/ Tunbridge Wells/ East Grinstead. He held a substantive Consultant Ophthalmologist post at Milton Keynes University Hospital up until 2022. He has been providing ophthalmic services at Blakelands Hospital since 2013.
Based at
NHS base
Former Consultant at Milton Keynes University Hospital (retired March 2022)
GMC Number
3437405
Clinical interests
Mr Kumar's subspecialist interest includes cataract surgery and oculoplastics.
He has extensive experience in managing various types of cataracts and using standard monofocal, toric and extended depth of focus (Edof) implants that can reduce dependence on spectacle wear. Toric implants can reduce astigmatism whilst the Edof implants (PureSee by J&J) allow patients to reduce dependence on spectacle wear for distance, intermediate and functional near vision (eg using the smart phone or seeing the prices on shopping items).
Mr Kumar also offers an oculoplastics service and manages lid entropion (lid turning inwards) , ectropion (lid turning outwards), ptosis (droopy lid), upper lid blepharoplasty (for excessive upper lid skin), watery eyes, and lid lumps and bumps.
Professional Memberships
Royal College of Ophthalmologists
British Oculoplastics Society (BOPSS)
UK Cataract and Refractive Surgery Society (UKISCRS)
Academic Background
MBBS (Syd Uni) 1989
FRCOphth 1993
FRCSEd 1993
Mr Kumar completed his ophthalmic training in Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and St Pauls Eye Unit, Liverpool and has done a corneoplastics fellowship in Perth, Western Australia as well as as a second oculoplastics fellowship in Maidstone/ Tunbridge Wells/ East Grinstead. He held a substantive Consultant Ophthalmologist post at Milton Keynes University Hospital up until 2022. He has been providing ophthalmic services at Blakelands Hospital since 2013.