The aim of the English NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (DESP) is to reduce the risk of sight loss amongst people with diabetes by the prompt identification and effective treatment if necessary of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy, at the appropriate stage during the disease process, with ...
Depending on the results, patients areeither recalled for annual screening, invited back for more frequent surveillance or referred on to hospital eye services. During 2011-12, NDESP invited 2,362,000 people inEngland for screening and 1,911,000 of these attended4 -an overall uptake rate of ...
The website now covers all aspects of education and has even helped people with type 2 diabetes to start using insulin without leaving their home, by way of instructions via video. There is detailed information on eye, feet and blood screening, emotional wellbeing, what to do when illness st...
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Continuous glucose monitoring systems linked to insulin pumps for better diabetes management and to avoid insulin injections The Google-backed DeepMind AI and machine learning deployed at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England, to accurately detect eye diseases through optical coherence tomography and to...
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Ok! Credit: CC0 Public Domain Adults in England with advanced lung cancer will not have access to a new targeted cancer drug, lorlatinib (Lorviqua). Ad The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provisionally rejected lorlatinib because it couldn't be confident thedrugoffers...
So when I was told about Street Doctor I thought it was a great concept because, apart from diagnosing, treating and screening for conditions, it's a good way to give health promotion and offer lifestyle advice."Doing the programme has been a real eye-opener and I've been amazed at ...
So when I was told about Street Doctor I thought it was a great concept because, apart from diagnosing, treating and screening for conditions, it's a good way to give health promotion and offer lifestyle advice."Doing the programme has been a real eye-opener and I've been amazed at...