Digital Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

Who is eligiable?

 

If you have diabetes and are over 12 years old you will be invited every year to take part in the National Screening Programme for Diabetic Retinopathy.


This is equally true whether you need insulin, tablets or need to manage your diet to keep your diabetes under control and whetehr your GP or a consultant diabetologist helps you to manage your diabetes.


The aim of the programme is to reduce the risk of sight loss amongst people with diabetes, by the prompt identification and effective treatment if necessary of sight threatening diabetic retinopathy, at the appropriate stage during the disease process

 

Systematic screening involves digital photography of the retina followed by a two or three stage image grading process to identify the changes of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy in the retina.

 

Click here for details of practices/locations that provide Diabetic Retinopathy Screening for Walsall residents.

 

More Information

Diabetic Retinopathy - the facts

Eye Screeing for people with diabetes - the facts

Understanding Eye Conditions Related to Diabetes

English National Screening Programme for  Diabetic Retinopathy

Diabetes UK