Mr Sudipto Bhatta offers a personalised care for patients needing help with their eye conditions in general and specialises in cataract surgery including premium IOL implants for correcting astigmatism and near vision and laser and surgical treatment for glaucoma. He has joined the ophthalmology team in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a Consultant Ophthalmologist in 2017. Prior to this, he had worked as a Consultant in the Hull and East Yorkshire Eye NHS Trust from 2013 to 2017. He is the current Training Programme Director for North of Scotland for all junior Ophthalmology doctors.

Mr Bhatta has more than 20 years of experience in ophthalmology and has successfully upheld his practising privileges as a Consultant in the private sector in parallel alongside his NHS commitments since 2013. He had previously offered independent high quality eye care services in Spire Hull and East Yorkshire, England and more recently, through BMI Albyn Hospital since he has moved up to Aberdeen in 2017.

Mr Bhatta graduated in Medicine with an Honours (MB BS, Hons) from one of the first and premier medical colleges in India – the Calcutta Medical College, University of Calcutta in the year 1998, and subsequently completed a post-graduate Masters degree (MS) in Ophthalmology which he had qualified with an order of merit from the same Calcutta University in 2003.

Mr Bhatta has completed the national ophthalmology training programme as a Registrar from the Royal Hallamshire Sheffield Teaching Hospitals between 2007 and 2012. In 2013, he then completed one year of advanced subspecialty higher surgical training in glaucoma at the St James’s University Hospital, Leeds.

Mr Bhatta regularly delivers talks in regional and national meetings and have had publications in various peer-reviewed scientific journals. During his Consultant tenure in Hull, the eye department had been the recipient of the coveted International Glaucoma Association (IGA) award in 2016 for the best voted glaucoma unit by UK patients.

Mr Bhatta takes a very keen interest in education and training of postgraduate doctors and undergraduate students and has held office in the following posts:

• 2021 – successfully appointed as the ophthalmology Training Programme Director (TPD) for Scotland Deanery (North).
• Since 2017 – Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Aberdeen University for undergraduate medical students and delivers regular lectures to Foundation Year junior doctors.
• Since 2017 – Trainer, North East Scotland ‘Teach and Treat’ programme for teaching community opticians in NHS clinics.
• 2017 to 2021 – Clinical governance lead in Ophthalmology, NHS Grampian and clinical governance adviser to the local community optician’s Eye Health Network (EHN).
• 2016 to 2017 – nominated Royal College Tutor, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
• 2013 to 2017 – Clinical governance lead in ophthalmology, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
• Since 2013 – named Royal College clinical and educational supervisor for post-graduate trainees.