Diabetes Wellness Morning South

Eye Health and Diabetes Leaflet

Diabetes can affect the health of your eyes, causing long-term complications if not properly treated. This leaflet explains why attending eye screening appointments and maintaining good control of your diabetes can reduce issues with your eyes.

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Powerpoint Slides

We were joined by our colleagues from the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (Health Intelligence) team, who spoke about the reasons retinal screening is offered to all people living with diabetes, the importance of attending appointments and the processes they use for screening, analysing results and the NHS referral process for any treatments should they be needed to treat any stages of macular damage or retinopathy.

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Thank You Dexcom

A big thank you to our United Through Diabetes sponsor Dexcom. 

Dexcom have spent the last 20 years innovating and developing simpler and better ways for people with type 1 diabetes to measure, track and manage their diabetes.

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