Mr Atul Bansal

About Mr Atul Bansal

Mr Atul Bansal is an extremely-skilled and leading consultant ophthalmic surgeon based in Coventry and Solihull, Birmingham. He is a renowned expert in cataract surgery and glaucoma management, and has been in the field of ophthalmology for more than 29 years. He is very highly-regarded for his skill in cataract surgery and has performed thousands of cataract procedures. He has special expertise in complex cataract surgery and also offers cataract surgery with multifocal and toric intraocular lenses and microincision cataract surgery with an option of no injection anaesthesia. He had been the lead for cataract surgery for many years at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust. Mr Bansal is an expert in modern glaucoma lasers and surgery and offers minimally-invasive surgery (MIGS) with iStent and Trabectome, and regularly performs and teaches selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT). He graduated from a top medical school with a first prize and obtained excellent training, including specialist training from Oxford and Birmingham and an advanced fellowship from Manchester Eye Hospital. He was awarded the Birmingham Eye Foundation Roper-Hall Prize Medal in 2004. He has an avid interest in research with more than 20 indexed publications in peer-reviewed journals, an MD thesis and chapters in a book on difficult cataract surgery. He is a principal investigator in randomised multicentre trials. He regularly presents at international and national meetings and has chaired a number of sessions on cataract and glaucoma surgery. He has served as the regional quality lead for the postgraduate training for the School of Ophthalmology, Health Education West Midlands, for many years. He has been nominated three times for the Best Regional Ophthalmology Trainer award. Mr Bansal is driven by providing service in a caring way and tailors the treatment to the patients’ individual needs. He keeps patients’ interests first and always aims for providing the highest standards of quality and safety. He practices privately at BMI The Meriden Hospital in Coventry and the Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull, Birmingham.