New EDM - COST OF CALLING DOCTORS’ SURGERIES

1989 COST OF CALLING DOCTORS' SURGERIES 24:7:07

Mrs Sharon Hodgson
Bob Spink
Andrew George
Bob Russell
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That this House strongly deplores the practice of doctors' surgeries setting up more expensive telephone numbers with an 0844 prefix, which are up to four pence a minute more expensive to call from a standard BT landline, through which patients have to book appointments, although the telephone watchdog Ofcom is rightly critical of the idea; believes that this unfairly penalises the less well off and urges the greater use of geographical telephone numbers for such purposes.