Diabetes Eye Screening - Covid 19 Restart

Category: Managing Complications / Eye / NHS Service, Hospital or Clinic

Added/Updated: 10/28/2020

Lots of understandable worry about information regards retinal screening for people with diabetes during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr Rebecca Thomas and Prof Partha Kar created this info sheet based on Public Health England's guidance.

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Amanda Epps

Very useful and timely. Lots of understandable worry about the impact of the pandemic on the retinal screening programme.

Mike Kendall

The longer the Coronavirus / Covid 19 pandemic continues to affect things the more routine 'annula review' appointments will be affected, so this is a very useful guide.

Links (open in new window): Covid-19 Eye Screening Restart (pdf); Covid-19 Eye Screening Restart (jpg)

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