Guidance

Diabetic eye screening programme: failsafe procedures

These documents set out how the failsafe processes work for the NHS diabetic eye screening (DES) programme.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 1 January 2013
• Last updated: 27 September 2024
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  1. 27 September 2024

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

  2. 29 March 2021

     Updated sections 8, 9 and 10.

  3. 4 September 2020

     Updated section 10.2 on non-urgent referrals.

  4. 26 November 2019

     Added information on the use of virtual clinics in DES to HES pathways.

  5. 5 December 2018

     Added 'Diabetic eye screening: managing referrals to hospital eye services'.

  6. 1 January 2013

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Failsafe: NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme

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Failsafe processes minimise risks of anything going wrong in the screening pathway.

These publications explain the failsafe procedures in place for the diabetic eye screening programme.

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