Professional Profile

Mr Adam Bates has been a Consultant Ophthalmologist since 2006 at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. In that time, he has been College Tutor with responsibility for ophthalmology training in the trust and Lead Consultant with managerial responsibility for the department.

He also undertook stints as Training Programme Director and then Head of School for Ophthalmology for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex region.

He did his medical degrees at Cambridge and Manchester and undertook his ophthalmology training at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, finishing at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He also did stints at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.

In clinic, Mr Bates sees children with eye problems, adults with squints (a misalignment of one eye in relation to the other) and adults with eye problems related to neurological disease. The work is varied and always interesting. He also handles squint operations in theatre.

Since 2022 he has been lead for national trainee recruitment for The Royal College of Ophthalmologists.