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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
I took my wife to one of their clinics.
It has the feel of a scam.
Apparently they check for diabetic retinopathy, but no other diabetes related eye problems. Presumably they don't mind if you go blind, just not from retinopathy. I am even dubious about their checks for retinopathy - they just take photos and show them to technicians.
I had an acrimonious conversation with the only eye doctor linked to the scheme that covers all of NW London, (it took from a Wednesday to the following Monday for her to be available to talk to me). To questions there was a series of "we do not check for that" answers. I did not find out if my wife was suffering from diabetic maculopathy as the doctor terminated the call before I could ask.
My advice to the NHS is to close them down, I feel they are dangerous. They may be saving you money right now but when the effect of inadequately checked patients becomes a torrent of blind people seeking compensation it could prove very expensive for you and catastrophic for the victims.
To patients, don't waste your time, ask to be referred to a competent fully equipped and staffed eye clinic.
I have written to Diabetes UK asking them to investigate. Meanwhile, I suspect everyone knows what I think.
And you, what do you think?
It has the feel of a scam.
Apparently they check for diabetic retinopathy, but no other diabetes related eye problems. Presumably they don't mind if you go blind, just not from retinopathy. I am even dubious about their checks for retinopathy - they just take photos and show them to technicians.
I had an acrimonious conversation with the only eye doctor linked to the scheme that covers all of NW London, (it took from a Wednesday to the following Monday for her to be available to talk to me). To questions there was a series of "we do not check for that" answers. I did not find out if my wife was suffering from diabetic maculopathy as the doctor terminated the call before I could ask.
My advice to the NHS is to close them down, I feel they are dangerous. They may be saving you money right now but when the effect of inadequately checked patients becomes a torrent of blind people seeking compensation it could prove very expensive for you and catastrophic for the victims.
To patients, don't waste your time, ask to be referred to a competent fully equipped and staffed eye clinic.
I have written to Diabetes UK asking them to investigate. Meanwhile, I suspect everyone knows what I think.
And you, what do you think?