We offer diabetes eye screening to 150,000 people with diabetes in north east London.
The commonest outcome is that we find no diabetic eye disease.
Less commonly we find some diabetic eye disease that needs no treatment, but which does need checking from time to time.
Rarely (only 600 cases out of 150,000 per year) we find bad diabetic eye disease (called proliferative retinopathy) which, if untreated, could cause loss of sight. We send people with this problem to a specialist eye clinic for laser treatment to prevent sight loss.
If you want to know more about laser treatment please watch the video below.