The WA Country Health Service has signed a partnership with Perth's Lions Eye Institute to provide early screening for diabetes-related vision impairment by telehealth.
Patients living in the remote Goldfields region of WA can now access early screening programs, with nurses and Aboriginal health workers in Leonora, Laverton and Norseman having been trained by Lions Eye Institute staff to use a digital retinography system (DRS) to carry out retinal screening.
