Guidance

Diabetic eye screening: cohort management

This guidance explains the management of the cohort (people on the programme register) for the NHS diabetic eye screening (DES) programme.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 31 October 2012
• Last updated: 30 March 2026
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  1. 30 March 2026

     Replaced DES Cohort Management Guidance with updated version.

  2. 27 September 2024

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

  3. 18 July 2024

     Removed PHE contact references

  4. 30 March 2021

     Added new information to section 4.1.

  5. 6 February 2019

     Updated with detailed guidance on the management of the cohort for diabetic eye screening.

  6. 31 October 2012

     First published.

Applies to England

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Diabetic eye screening: cohort management

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This document explains the management of the cohort for diabetic eye screening (DES).

It includes:

• exclusions
• suspensions
• people who are ineligible or off-register
• situations that require special consideration
• rarer forms of diabetes

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