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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
124 MayDecember 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme: grading definitions for referable disease

HTML

Features-based grading outcomes guidance

HTML

Details

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).

Updates to this page

Published 30 November 2012
Last updated 124 MayDecember 2025 + show all updates

  2. Updating form 'Standard Feature Based Grading Form to be used in Routine Digital Screening' from PDF to HTML, with minor revisions and updates to align with current guidance.

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Update history

2025-12-04 16:59
Minor change to the description of the MBH image

2025-05-12 16:53
Updating form ‘Standard Feature Based Grading Form to be used in Routine Digital Screening’ from PDF to HTML, with minor revisions and updates to align with current guidance.

2024-09-27 16:26
Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

2024-08-20 14:25
Updated guidance