A week of news - Optometrist to the rescue

An amazing story has this week emerged about a quick-thinking optometrist who spotted the emergence of a brain tumour.

Tabloid newspapers including the Daily Mail reported on the case and Optician has more details in this week's edition.

The credit goes to Anna Lewin at Haine & Smith Opticians Chippenham after referring her 23-year-old patient to the hospital for eventual surgery.

More remarkable was that the benign tumour had reached the size of an orange over a number of months without diagnosis.

The message that regular eye tests are also able to pick up underlying health conditions is constantly sounded by the profession.