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hi, i am not a diabetic , but am an optometrist, in north west who is also a member of a local optical commitee (loc). we meet to discuss topics relevant to local community optometrists, liase with primary care trusts etc, one of the topics being community retinal screening by community optometrists in practice. in yestedays loc meeting the retinal screening was discussed and we all thought that it was of great benifit to the diabetic population! however nonone has yet asked the diabetics how they feel about it! hence this post. i am paticully interested in comments by diabetics who have a choice of screener eg community optician, hospital based , " man in a van" mobile screen. the reasons as to why they chose which provider , how was the experience, was it good to be able to have a sight test at the same time as screen, did you feel pressured into buying specs?- would that stop you going back to that optician again? does any one attend one optometrist for screen and another for specs? is it considered a big benifit to have " capture " ( ie photos) and "grade" (the process of determining the level of retinopathy, if any) on the same day? ( in some areas these 2 parts are sepperated) i do not screen personally nor am i a practice owner so please be frank with replys. however it would be helpful if comments related to diabetic retinal screening alone were posted , and not drift into other topics. i intend to show results to committe at next meeting. any who do not want their comments shown please indicate so. i will be removing names of any practices /screeners that may be referred to. i shall of course give the scource of the comments as the "diabetes uk forum". any questions please ask. i have already seen thread *eye screening , do i have a choice of provider* any other threads you think may help please let me know
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