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: 27 September 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

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NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme: grading definitions for referable disease

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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).

This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.

Published 30 November 2012
Last updated 27 September 2024 + show all updates

1. 27 September 2024

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

2. 20 August 2024

   Updated guidance

3. 27 August 2021

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

4. 3 January 2017

   Document updated January 2017 to replace previous version.

5. 30 November 2012

   First published.