Diabetes: Screening
(asked on 16th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address the backlog of screening for diabetes following the covid-19 outbreak.
This question was answered on 14th September 2020
Diabetic eye screening has continued through the pandemic response for those at highest risk. NHS England and NHS Improvement are now working with service providers to ensure that, where services took the decision to reschedule appointments, services are restored as soon as it is safely possible to do so, in order to minimise any risk to individual patients.