Bill Harvey: Get your hands off my stack

The best way to ensure adequate health care, including eye care that is free for all at the point of need, is to ensure adequate funding. When the required funding is clearly not forthcoming, we all need to think about what extra funding is needed and where it might come from. For example, one fifth of the current NHS budget goes on track and trace, with daily consultancy fees costing a cool £1.3m.

I suspect everyone reading will be familiar with stories of creeping privatisation. Growing waiting lists for essential treatment, relegation of previously important treatments (such as cataract extraction) to non-essential status irrespective of sight loss, increasing lip service given to the importance of the primary care sector without any indication of how this is to be funded under the NHS; I could (and often do) go on.