Thank you for your kind comments. I will chase the retinopathy situation up with my GP, when I see him. Meanwhile, thanks also for this information.
I have commented before, on another thread.
My current status, on my medical records is "Diabetes Resolved", and I still receive invitations (which I accept) for retinopathy screening, so I think there's definitely some variance in how Practices choose to administer things.
I'll continue to accept invitations I receive. My optician uses some nifty photographic equipment when I have my routine sight tests done, but I'm hopeful the diabetic screening service have a more in depth experience of interpreting the images.[/QUOTE]
Because there have been problems with patients missing out on screening when GPs have mis-coded diabetes reversal through diet as "diabetes resolved" instead of "diabetes in remission", Diabetic Eye Screening Programmes will ask for
written confirmation that patient's diabetes has resolved. This has to be "approved" by the Clinical Lead before the patient can be removed from the screening database. If GP doesn't send the written confirmation, or if the Clinical Lead thought a GP had mis-coded, the patient would not be removed from the screening database but would continue to be recalled for screening.