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- Understand how patient management pathways are configured to ensure an effective and robust failsafe system for Hospital Eye Services and Diabetic Screening Services.
- Understand the importance of accurate disease registers in the context of screening.
- Understand the quality assurance (QA) processes that are necessary to be implemented in national screening programmes e.g. diabetic retinopathy screening.
- Understand the distinction between systematic and opportunistic screening. Understand how outcomes of screening are dealt with.
- Have detailed knowledge of grading classification and referral criteria for the major national screening programmes, including diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma screening.
- Attend and observe diabetic retinopathy screening, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening and community vision screening in children.
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