Ophthalmologist who misled patients about treatment benefits is struck off

A prominent consultant ophthalmologist has been struck off the UK medical register after a tribunal found that his private eye hospital used high pressure sales techniques to persuade patients to pay for treatments that offered no realistic prospect of helping them.

Muhammad “Bobby” Qureshi, 49, misled patients who were often desperate into believing that he could improve their vision, a medical practitioners tribunal found. Many had the incurable progressive condition wet age-related macular degeneration.

Qureshi on occasion could become evasive or aggressive if patients complained that the promised benefits had not materialised, the tribunal heard. When one patient told him that she still could not read after surgery, despite his assurances …