If you or someone you care for, is eligible for diabetic eye screening – we want to hear from you!

As the commissioner of diabetic eye screening services NHS England is committed to reducing the risk of sight loss amongst people with diabetes by ensuring high quality local services are in place to support the prompt identification and effective treatment of sight threatening diabetic retinopathy.

Currently, everyone diagnosed with diabetes aged 12 years and over is invited for eye screening each year. If diabetic retinopathy is not found, people are invited for their next appointment, either a year or two years later. Where changes in the eye are detected, the person is screened more often or referred to hospital for treatment. Thanks to these screening appointments, diabetic eye disease is no longer the leading cause of blindness in the working age population in England.

While the majority of people do regularly attend their diabetic eye screening appointments, not everyone does. Across the south east, we want to understand the reasons why people may miss their appointment, while also hearing the experiences of those that do attend.

The feedback you provide will directly help us improve your local diabetic eye screening service.

How you can get involved!

Please complete our short online survey.

This should take a maximum of 10 minutes, and you do not have to give your name.

Your feedback will be analysed and used to help us improve your local diabetic eye screening service.

Alternatively, you can get involved by completing the easy-read version.

Translation options are available when you click through to the survey.

The survey will be open from 18 November 2024 – 10 January 2025.

For more information about this survey, please contact england.kss-ph-admin@nhs.net