Diabetic retinopathy (DR) affects an estimated one in three people living with diabetes, and is a primary cause of vision loss and blindness in people aged between 20 and 65.
The European Diabetes Leadership Forum – which took place on 25–26 April 2012 in Copenhagen highlighted many good practices and initiatives to improve the prevention, detection and management of diabetes across Europe.The Copenhagen Catalogue of good practices in diabetes collects such good practice examples, identified both during and post the Forum. In a context