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.

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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).

Contact the Public Health England (PHE) Screening helpdesk with any queries about this publication, making sure you include its full title.

Published 30 November 2012
Last updated 27 August 2021 + show all updates
  1. Converted from PDF to HTML and some images removed. Forms changed from PDF to open Word format.

  2. Document updated January 2017 to replace previous version.

  3. First published.