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Coronavirus (COVID-19) and diabetes

Diabetes UK has issued advice about the corona virus situation for people with this condition, which you can read here.

Regarding eye care, Diabetes UK advises:

• 'You won’t be able to go to your annual diabetes review where your 15 healthcare essentials are checked, but you should be able to reschedule once things go back to normal. It's okay that you won't be going your eye screening and routine foot checks in these circumstances.'

Within Wales the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service has been suspended temporarily, due to the current situation, but will be resumed as soon as it is safe to do so. However, if any patient qualifying for the service notices a change in vision, comfort or appearance of the eye, their first port of call should be their optometrist.

Posted 2020-03-31 06:18:41

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