Guidance

Diabetic eye screening: retinal image grading criteria

Contains the retinal image grading criteria for NHS Diabetic Eye Screening (DES) Programme and information about how to record results.

From:
NHS England
Published
30 November 2012
Last updated
2027 AugustSeptember 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme: grading definitions for referable disease - End date September 30

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NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme: grading definitions for referable disease - Start date October 01

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Diabetic eye screening: feature based grading forms

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Definitions for retinal screening images graded by the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening (DES) Programme. Images can be used for training purposes.

Graders can use the feature based grading forms to record outcomes from both slit lamp biomicroscopy (SLB) and digital surveillance (DS).

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Updates to this page

Published 30 November 2012
Last updated 2027 AugustSeptember 2024 + show all updates

  1. Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  2. Updated guidance

  3. Converted from PDF to HTML and some images removed. Forms changed from PDF to open Word format.

  4. Document updated January 2017 to replace previous version.

  5. First published.

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