Hi @Chell1066 and welcome to the forum! I have had checks for glaucoma since high pressure was detected in one eye during a routine optician's check about five years ago. I have since been diagnosed with T2 diabetes and am supposed to have a retinal screening every six months, though I still haven't been given an appointment six months after diagnosis.
You should have been offered an eye screening appointment within 3 months of diagnosis. I would go back to my GP and ask them to investigate. Errors in referral to the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme sometimes occur - if they haven't been given the right address, for example, you won't have received your appointment letter!
I did tell my GP when I saw her for the results of my 3 month retest that I hadn't heard anything from the retinal screening hospital. She said it was due to them being in a mess because of reorganisation, and I would hear from them. That was 3 months ago.
On diagnosis I was told that I would have retinal screening test every six months (though yet to have one).
Oh dear. Even if the service is reorganising, procedures should have been put in place to ensure patients come to no harm. Although you were diagnosed only a few months ago, type 2s may have had diabetes for as much as 10 years at diagnosis and can have sight-threatening retinopathy on their first screening. The earlier this is treated, the better, so it is important for newly diagnosed Type 2s to be screened as soon as possible after diagnosis.
