For Doris McGuire, 86, appearing in Geordie Hospita l's final episode was a chance to celebrate for two reasons - she was having her second cataract operation and it was also her birthday!
The Chapel House pensioner and mother of two told ChronicleLive how having her operations at the Newcastle Cataract Centre had been almost painless - and she said they had made the "world of difference".
Sister Helen Phillipson leads the cataract centre, newly opened at the time of filming last July, in Westgate Road.
