Guidance

Diabetic eye screening: retinal image grading criteria

Contains the retinal image grading criteria for NHS Diabetic Eye Screening (DES) Programme and information about how to record results.

Applies to England

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Definitions for retinal screening images graded by the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening (DES) Programme. Images can be used for training purposes.

Graders can use the feature based grading forms to record outcomes from both slit lamp biomicroscopy (SLB) and digital surveillance (DS).

Updates to this page

Published 30 November 2012
Last updated 12 May 2025 show all updates
  1. Updating form 'Standard Feature Based Grading Form to be used in Routine Digital Screening' from PDF to HTML, with minor revisions and updates to align with current guidance.

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

  3. Updated guidance

  4. Converted from PDF to HTML and some images removed. Forms changed from PDF to open Word format.

  5. Document updated January 2017 to replace previous version.

  6. First published.

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