Diabetic retinopathy screening outcomes by patient characteristics

Standard shorthand is used in this table: [t] = total, [z] = not applicable.

Data values	Data description	Date	Characteristics	Outcome
218	Number	31/03/2023	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
315	Number	31/03/2025	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
109	Number	31/03/2020	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
335 [t]	Number	31/03/2023	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
254	Number	31/03/2024	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
528	Number	31/03/2025	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
585 [t]	Number	31/03/2020	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
141	Number	31/03/2020	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
105	Number	31/03/2021	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
60	Number	31/03/2022	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
68	Number	31/03/2023	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
467	Number	31/03/2024	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
117	Number	31/03/2024	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
843 [t]	Number	31/03/2025	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
0	Number	31/03/2019	Age: 19 years and under	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
102	Number	31/03/2019	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
585 [t]	Number	31/03/2020	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
260	Number	31/03/2020	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
306	Number	31/03/2021	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
263	Number	31/03/2021	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
321	Number	31/03/2022	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
98	Number	31/03/2022	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
117	Number	31/03/2023	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
61	Number	31/03/2023	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
722 [t]	Number	31/03/2024	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
152	Number	31/03/2018	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
722 [t]	Number	31/03/2024	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
158	Number	31/03/2024	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
278	Number	31/03/2019	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
74	Number	31/03/2024	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
881	Number	31/03/2018	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
326	Number	31/03/2018	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
135	Number	31/03/2017	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
152	Number	31/03/2019	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
102	Number	31/03/2017	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
189	Number	31/03/2020	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
0	Number	31/03/2020	Age: 19 years and under	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
81	Number	31/03/2016	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
75	Number	31/03/2020	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
140	Number	31/03/2021	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
448 [t]	Number	31/03/2021	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
1	Number	31/03/2021	Age: 19 years and under	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
58	Number	31/03/2021	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
537 [t]	Number	31/03/2022	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
537 [t]	Number	31/03/2022	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
140	Number	31/03/2022	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
265	Number	31/03/2017	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
753 [t]	Number	31/03/2019	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
335 [t]	Number	31/03/2023	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
160	Number	31/03/2023	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
505 [t]	Number	31/03/2014	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
46	Number	31/03/2023	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
47	Number	31/03/2014	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
485 [t]	Number	31/03/2016	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
741 [t]	Number	31/03/2017	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
753 [t]	Number	31/03/2019	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
472	Number	31/03/2019	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
373	Number	31/03/2024	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
562 [t]	Number	31/03/2015	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
1	Number	31/03/2014	Age: 19 years and under	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
211	Number	31/03/2016	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
1	Number	31/03/2017	Age: 19 years and under	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
314	Number	31/03/2016	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
131	Number	31/03/2016	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
373	Number	31/03/2015	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
62	Number	31/03/2016	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
180	Number	31/03/2017	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
0	Number	31/03/2016	Age: 19 years and under	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
321	Number	31/03/2019	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
178	Number	31/03/2019	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
181	Number	31/03/2015	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
254	Number	31/03/2014	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
173	Number	31/03/2014	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
393	Number	31/03/2020	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
163	Number	31/03/2016	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
1,397 [t]	Number	31/03/2018	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
562 [t]	Number	31/03/2015	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
116	Number	31/03/2015	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
1,397 [t]	Number	31/03/2018	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
485 [t]	Number	31/03/2016	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
473	Number	31/03/2017	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
448 [t]	Number	31/03/2021	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
0	Number	31/03/2015	Age: 19 years and under	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
122	Number	31/03/2014	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
490	Number	31/03/2018	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
56	Number	31/03/2015	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
0	Number	31/03/2018	Age: 19 years and under	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
305	Number	31/03/2018	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
271	Number	31/03/2015	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
21	Number	31/03/2021	Age: 80 years or over	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
216	Number	31/03/2022	Gender: Female	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
741 [t]	Number	31/03/2017	Gender: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
594	Number	31/03/2018	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
239	Number	31/03/2022	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
119	Number	31/03/2015	Age: 60-69 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
81	Number	31/03/2014	Age: 70-79 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
505 [t]	Number	31/03/2014	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
323	Number	31/03/2017	Age: 20-59 years	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
321	Number	31/03/2014	Gender: Male	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy
843 [t]	Number	31/03/2025	Age: Total	Severe retinopathy/maculopathy

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Main information

• Most recent update: 30 September 2025
• Next update expected: September 2026
• Designation: Official statistics
• Data provider: Diabetic Eye Screening Wales (DESW)
• Data source: No specific source from data provider
• Time period covered: March 2014 to March 2025

Data notes

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  This dataset shows the outcomes from Diabetic Eye Screening Wales (DESW) screenings, broken down by patient characteristics such as sex and age group, and by financial year. It provides insight into how screening results vary across different population groups and over time.

• Data collection or calculation:

  Aggregated counts of patients are derived from patient records and used as information to manage the DESW and have been provided for this statistical release. No data relating to individual patients has been transferred in this process. When a patient is diagnosed with diabetes by a GP, a referral is sent to DESW and the patient is registered and invited for screening. Screening is carried out in a mobile unit or healthcare sites. Patient information, including retinal images, is stored on the DESW database. DESW validates the database monthly against the Welsh Demographic Service to ensure that it is aligned with living Welsh residents. Total counts are also routinely validated against GP diabetes disease registers. The different outcomes in the dataset are determined by the ‘worst grade’ code assigned at each diabetic eye screening. This code identifies the extent of retinopathy. All screenings, including those with unreported outcomes, are included in the total ‘results reported’. The number of screenings resulting in each outcome is broken down by age group and gender, and the percentage of each outcome within these groups is also calculated.

• Statistical quality:

  For some years, all screenings with severe retinopathy/maculopathy were urgently referred to hospital eye services and so the numbers for both categories are the same. Note that there are small amounts of missing data within some fields of the DESW statistics. Percentages are calculated of records with stated values. The outcomes of a number of screenings were ungradeable in each year (usually between 2,000 and 3,000). On 1 April 2019, health service responsibility for Bridgend residents moved from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg to Cwm Taf. Health board names also changed: Cwm Taf became Cwm Taf Morgannwg, and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg became Swansea Bay. See the weblinks section for official statements.

• Related reports:
  • Eye Care Statistics
  • Quality Report

Published by

• Organisation: Welsh Government
• Contact email: stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Metadata

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