Eyegas Consultants

Eyegas Consultants: specialist glaucoma and cataract care in Hampshire

Eyegas Consultants is the private practice of Nishani Amerasinghe, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon working in the south of England. Ms Amerasinghe combines her role as a senior consultant at University Hospital Southampton with private care at several hospitals across the Hampshire region.

Professional profile of Nishani Amerasinghe

Nishani Amerasinghe graduated in Medicine from the Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's (London, 1998) and holds a BSc (Hons) from the University of London (1995). She completed her training on the Wessex ophthalmology rotation, where she also undertook an Advanced Speciality (Glaucoma) Training Opportunity (ASTO) between Southampton and Portsmouth Hospitals. She subsequently extended her specialisation with two years as a Clinical Glaucoma Research Fellow at the Singapore National Eye Centre and a clinical glaucoma fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and was awarded her certificate of completion of training (CCT) by the General Medical Council in 2011. She is on the GMC's specialist register for ophthalmology and is a member of the British Medical Association, the Medical Defence Union and the UK & Eire Glaucoma Society, of which she is President.

Areas of specialisation

• Specialist glaucoma care
• Premium cataract management
• General ophthalmology

In surgery she uses techniques such as SLT laser, conventional glaucoma surgery (tube and trabeculectomy) and minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS). As a complex cataract surgeon she uses innovative techniques. The practice states that she has been performing cataract and glaucoma surgery for more than twenty years, with thousands of procedures carried out and a very low complication rate.

Research, teaching and outreach

Ms Amerasinghe has taken part in research projects, including a large study into the heritability of primary angle closure glaucoma, carried out jointly with the Singapore National Eye Centre and the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London. She authored the British Medical Journal Best Practice document on primary open angle glaucoma (2023) and is currently the principal investigator of a multicentre project on real-world data in the management of open angle glaucoma.

She maintains a teaching role aimed both at trainees and local healthcare professionals and at international colleagues, with training on the West African College of Surgeons/Moorfields Trabeculectomy Course in Ghana and the Alcon Basic Glaucoma Surgical Course in Barcelona. She is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences, particularly on angle closure and the surgical treatment of glaucoma, and has published numerous articles and reviewed for the leading ophthalmology journals. She has also taken part in media interviews for outlets such as the Mail on Sunday, Sky News, ITV and BBC Radio.

How to access the practice

Appointments can be requested directly by telephone through the secretary. For patients with health insurance, the practice recommends requesting a referral from their GP. Private care is provided at several hospitals in Hampshire, and the practice itself directs patients to its locations page to check the address of each centre.