Gail Cairns started experiencing sight loss, headaches, and eye pain, but did not go to an optician when she first had symptoms.

Ben Cronin is one of more than 4,000 eye patients waiting for a cornea transplant.

An Audit Office report says 12,000 operations were carried out without assurance they complied with policy.

Numbers waiting for treatment hit 7.41 million in England at the end of August.