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.
Applies to England
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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).
This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.
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Last updated 27 September 2024 + show all updates
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Document updated January 2017 to replace previous version.
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