Comment: Joining the drive from Europe?

Proportionate action in health policy has always been difficult to achieve for optometry.

Most people end their lives with cataracts and increasing numbers will live long enough to suffer age-related macular degeneration or develop type 2 diabetes. But the threat of cataracts in later life cuts little ice in changing the behaviour of teenagers and young adults. No surprise then that joined up political thinking in protecting the public from the dangers of UV or advising on the benefits of a healthy diet has yet to emerge.

More surprising is the fact that, despite the equivalent of a jumbo jet-full of people being killed monthly on the UK's roads, little has been done to ensure drivers' vision is up to scratch. This is a short-term connection surely even Westminster can't possibly ignore.