Diabetic eye screening

The new issue (January - February 2013) of the  UK NSC's Screening Matters newsletter  is now available on the UK Screening Portal, with the latest screening policy information, as well as updates on the English national screening programmes... [...]

New research has provided an insight into how the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (NDESP) is working. Researchers, in a collaboration between NHS organisations in south London and King’s College London, studied the screening records of... [...]

Members of the North Yorkshire Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (NYDESP) team will be getting on their bikes in June to raise awareness of the service they provide and to raise money for three good causes. The cycling screeners will be riding 132... [...]

The Royal Society of Medicine is hosting its third national diabetic retinal screening conference, entitled ‘The now and the new’ in London on Friday 26 April. The aim of the conference is sharing best practice and problem solving and it is... [...]

Nick Astbury, UK Chair of VISION 2020, the global initiative that aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020, has praised the work of the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme. In a letter to National Programme Director Professor Peter... [...]

The role The NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme National Programme Office is looking for a Data Quality and Information Officer to cover maternity leave for a period of one year commencing in April 2013 . The Data Quality and Information... [...]

The 12th issue of the UK National Screening Committee’s Screening Matters newsletter is now available on the screening portal at http://www.screening.nhs.uk/screeningmatters-issue12 .   It includes updates from all the national non-cancer... [...]

Diabetes UK is recruiting NHS organisations to work on its Improving Local Services Together project to involve people living with diabetes in service improvement projects. The UK’s leading diabetes charity is already working with 10 NHS... [...]

The British Association of Retinal Screening (BARS) is running a Module 1 tutorial day in April. The course, at High Wycombe Hospital Postgraduate Centre on 22 April, is designed to help delegates attain the level of theoretical knowledge... [...]

The UK National Screening Committee's annual report on  Screening in the UK 2011-12  has now been published. As well as introducing the work of the UK NSC and explaining the concept of screening, it covers the UK NSC's policy development work... [...]