Eye treatments
Practices at
Practice Plus Group Ophthalmology, RochdaleStarted at Practice Plus Group
2023
General Medical Council number
4146685
Languages
English
Urdu
Qualifications
MBBS
FRCOphth
FRCS (Edin)
Dip Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Private medical insurance – Approved insurers
Alliance Health Corporate
Aviva
AXA Health
Bupa
Bupa Global
Cigna
Healix Health Services
VitalityHealth
WPA
Having trained as a specialist registrar at the Oxford Eye Hospital, Rubina completed a two-year fellowship in Vitreo-retinal surgery. She has been working as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS foundation Trust since September 2002, providing Vitreo-retinal service to the whole of Huddersfield, Halifax and surrounding areas. She has recently retired from her NHS post after 20 years of service as a consultant.
Rubina offers bespoke small incision cataract surgery for simple and complex cataracts. She has a special interest in Combined cataract and Vitreo-retinal surgery and has published widely on this subject.
She has pioneered non-posturing macular hole surgery and rigorously performs outcome audits on her surgeries to maintain an above average success rate. She was one of the first surgeons in the UK to offer small incision (23G, 0.6mm) vitrectomy to her patients to allow quicker visual rehabilitation. Currently Rubina has adapted an even smaller incision (27G, 0.4mm) vitrectomy to allow quicker visual rehabilitation.
Rubina offers vitrectomy surgery for a variety of retinal conditions including floaters, macular hole, epiretinal membrane, retinal detachment etc. She is a keen researcher having published over 35 publications in peer reviewed journals. She regularly presents her work in Ophthalmology meetings such as British association of Vitreo-retinal surgeon, American Society of Retinal Surgeons and European Society of retinal Specialists. She reviews manuscript for prestigious journals such as Eye, JCRS and Retina.
