Diabetic eye screening pathways: patient, grading, referral, surveillance

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

Updated guidance

Throughout the documentation: Removed all references to PHE NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme Page 1: Screening is offered once every 24 months for those individuals with diabetes aged 12 years and over with two consecutive negative test results, and once every 12 months to those individuals with a positive, non-referrable result or a single negative result. NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme page 1: 4th paragraph 2nd bullet point : changed to individuals with a positive non referrable result (R0M0) NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme Page 1 ‘patients’ to ‘individuals’ or ‘Service users’ Patient pathway for retinal screening: Reviewed and renewed the pathway diagram Referral pathway for digital surveillance: Reviewed and renewed the pathway diagram Referral pathway for slit lamp biomicroscopy surveillance: Reviewed and renewed the pathway diagram Referral pathway for management of diabetic retinopathy: Reviewed and renewed the pathway diagram Pathway for pregnant patients: Reviewed and renewed the pathway diagram Single common grading pathway: Reviewed and renewed the pathway diagram

Updated pregnancy flowchart.

Updated edition of pathway overviews document.

First published.