You should be pleased to have made a contribution to the improvement in
the telephone service which enabled you to hang on in a queue rather
than encountering an engaged tone for hours :-)
And it is no more expensive than NHS Direct on 0845.
Fay
David Jobson wrote:
> "The NHS is free at the point of contact"
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> What a larf
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> Just had to phone my M-in-L's GP and been
> forced to use 0844 number which I gather
> costs 4.5 p/min, when I could have dialled
> free on a BT standard line.
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> Her GP makes about 1-2 p/min - and of course there
> was a boring list of options to go through
> ensuring I was trapped on line for several minutes.
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> To an old luddite like me this stinks.
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> What do others feel?
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> David Jobson
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