Moneo writes

The Politics Show on BBC 1 last Sunday showed a massive breakthrough in the story of the NHS sight test fee, and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is to be congratulated for highlighting the current iniquitous situation on national television.

It is now for this profession to make sure that the government is listening to us. Since his speech at the Labour Conference, where the Prime Minister hailed the saving of his eyesight by the NHS as a great moment, national eye care jumped up the agenda. Hence when the BBC ran the story of a pensioner needing to fund her sight-saving medical treatment out of her own savings because the NHS would not, while the Prime Minister's sight was saved without him having to contribute a penny, it became clear that the PM had made this a personal issue that was fair game to be attacked.