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Diabetes: Screening

Volume 461: debated on Wednesday 6 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people with diabetes who are unable to leave their home unaided have (a) been offered screening for diabetic retinopathy and (b) registered on a national screening programme; (139237)

(2) how many people with diabetes registered in a national screening programme for diabetic retinopathy are being screened annually;

(3) how many people with diabetes offered screening for diabetic retinopathy (a) registered in national screening programmes and (b) participated in a national screening programme in each year since 2003-04.

The data are not held centrally on how many people with diabetes who are unable to leave their home unaided have been offered screening for diabetic retinopathy.

The information in the following tables show the number of people with diabetes offered screening for diabetic retinopathy and the number of people receiving screening broken down by year.

Table 1

Number of people with diabetes offered screening for diabetic retinopathy

2003-04

835,900

2004-05

1,076,400

2005-06

1,478,223

2006-07

1,593,644

Table 2

Number of people with diabetes receiving screening for diabetic retinopathy1

2003-04

2753,997

2004-05

1,076,388

2005-06

1,232,043

2006-07

1,256,463

1 Data from Local Delivery Plans returns

2 Data for year 2003-04 was an incomplete return