Guidance

Diabetic retinopathy: description in brief

Information explaining diabetic retinopathy, a disease screened for by the NHS diabetic eye screening (DES) programme.

From:

NHS England

Published:

30 January 2015

Last updated:

23 June 2025

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23 June 2025
Changed content type to guidance.
9 June 2025
Removed reference to screening helpdesk and replaced with NHS England contact information.
27 July 2022
Updating confidentiality section, replacing mention of Public Health England with NHS England.
21 October 2021
Addition of plain A4 PDF version for printing, to provide for people unable to access this information online.
26 November 2020
Translations converted to HTML.
12 August 2019
Added HTML version of leaflet.
28 March 2018
Updated leaflet with opt-out and use of personal information.
30 January 2015
First published.

Applies to England

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This information explains diabetic retinopathy for people who have background retinopathy detected in screening.

This information is available above in A4 PDF format (in English) to print out and provide for people who cannot access digital information.

This information is available in 10 other languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian and Urdu.

To request another format, you can phone 0300 311 22 33 or email england.contactus@nhs.net.