1st Retinal Screen exhibited at the West Midlands Annual Diabetes Conference aimed at all healthcare professionals working with diabetes across the West Midlands region. The theme for the conference is 'keeping the diabetes heart beating'.

The Westminster Diabetes Centre was praised for its approach to diabetes care by the Minister of State for Health Services, Rosie Winterton, on a visit there on Thursday 8 March.

Following their recent contract win in London and the appointment of Grant Duncan to head up their Diabetic Retinopathy Screening and Grading Programme, 1st Retinal Screen has opened a London office in the next stage of their expansion programme.

As part of their expansion programme, 1st Retinal Screen has appointment Grant Duncan to head up their Diabetic Retinopathy Screening and Grading Programme.

Following the success of their service at Swindon and Kennet & North Wiltshire PCTs, 1st Retinal Screen have been awarded the contract to implement their ground breaking Diabetic Retinopathy Screening programme at Kensington and Chelsea PCT and Westminster PCT.

This new service will dramatically reduce the number of patients with diabetic related blindness by enabling patients with diabetes to be screened early on.

1st Retinal Screen announces the Installation of their new Diabetic Retinopathy Service at Swindon PCT. The new service will dramatically reduce the number of patients with diabetic related blindness by enabling diabetics to be screened early on. Diabetic Retinopathy is one of the most common causes of blindness in the Western world.

A ‘ground-breaking’ scheme to diagnose diabetes patients at risk of going blind by by-passing eye examinations is to turn to the profession for complicated cases. Efforts to hit the ambitious targets of diabetic retinopathy screening set by the Diabetes National Service Framework were boosted by the launch of the scheme this week which has been called a first-of-its-kind partnership.