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New Certifications of Visual Impairment (CVI) due to diabetic eye disease aged 12+, rate per 100,000 population (12164) Metric type

URI
http://id.esd.org.uk/metricType/12164
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New Certifications of Visual Impairment (CVI) due to diabetic eye disease aged 12+, rate per 100,000 population. The numerator counts for this indicator includes sight loss due to diabetic eye disease as the main cause or if no main cause as a contributory cause. (These are not counts of diabetics with visual impairments due to any cause).

The counts include sight loss due to diabetic eye disease as the main cause or if no main cause as a contributory cause, which could result in individuals being counted again under other conditions if more than one contributory cause. Certification is voluntary so true rates may be higher than this analysis shows. Incidence may vary due to the risk of sight loss being influenced by health inequalities, including ethnic, deprivation and age profiles of the local population. People that have a Certificate of Vision Impairment from an ophthalmologist choose whether or not to be included in their local authority's register of blind or partially sighted people; registration is not automatic. Those that register become eligible for certain concessions. This means that not everybody that has been certified as having a vision impairment is recorded on a local authority register. There are also geographic variations in data collection; in some instances completion of additional examinations required to complete the certification are incentivised. Due to this, data collection levels may reflect non-completion of certification rather than just low incidence. Analysis by Moorfields has shown that there is greater than a 10% difference in 2010/11 between certifications of visual impairment (CVIs) and registrations with local authorities in these areas: Bath and North East Somerset, Birmingham, Blackburn with Darwen, Bolton, Bristol, Bromley, Bury, Croydon, Dudley, Hillingdon, Kingston-upon-Thames, Leeds, Luton, Manchester, Medway Towns, North Lincolnshire, North Somerset, Redbridge, Rochdale, Salford, Sandwell, South Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Stockport, Stoke-on-Trent, Tameside, Trafford, Walsall, Warwickshire and Wiltshire - comparison to an expected value produced by indirect standardisation methods. Direct comparison to previous system of recording sight loss, BD8, should not be done due to the changes in the way in which this data was collected.

Counts between 1 and 4 are suppressed, and no indicator values have been calculated based on these small numbers with the exception of the England value where the total includes counts from local authorities whose numbers are suppressed for disclosure control and those certifications which had insufficient geographical information to identify a local authority.
Modified
04 Aug 2021
Data last updated
29 Apr 2024
Also known as
  • PHOF 4.12iii
  • 4.12iii
  • 4.12iii - Preventable sight loss - diabetic eye disease
  • E12c - Preventable sight loss - diabetic eye disease_Persons_12+ yrs
  • E12c
Short label
Preventable sight loss - diabetic eye disease (per 100,000 aged 12+)
Status
Live
Output precision
1
Polarity
a low value is good
Measure
Per 100,000 aged 12+
Dataset
Calculated by PHE Knowledge and Intelligence Service (Epidemiology & Surveillance) from data provided by Moorfields Eye Hospital and Office for National Statistics
Collection
Public Health Outcomes Framework
Source
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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