Omar Rafiq

Eye treatments

Started at Practice Plus Group

2024

General Medical Council number

6130043

Languages

English

Punjabi

Urdu

Qualifications

MB ChB 2005 University of Leeds

Royal College of Ophthalmologists UK – 2014

FRCOphth, Royal College of Ophthalmologists UK – 2014

Postgraduate Diploma in Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Ulster University – 2019

Biography

Mr Omar Rafiq is a Consultant Ophthalmologist based at Practice Plus Group Rochdale. He is also a Visiting consultant ophthalmologist (glaucoma and anterior segment) at Moorfields Eye Hospital Abu Dhabi. Previously he was a Substantive Consultant working Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and also at Al Zahra Hospital, UAE.

He has special interests in cataract surgery, glaucoma, including MIGS (Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery), and general ophthalmology.

Mr Rafiq gained his medical qualification from the University of Leeds in 2005. He went on to obtain his CCT from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists UK in 2014, as well as his FRCOphth. In 2019, he gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Cataract and Refractive Surgery from Ulster University.