084- numbers - Forest Hill Road Surgery

[louisiana]

There's now a petition against 084_ numbers e.g. 0844, on NHS services (such as that used by Forest Hill Road Surgery), on the 'Say No to 0870' website/ No. 10 petition website:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Healthtelephone/

Please sign if you object to paying premium rates to get through to your doctor.

Signed, angry Forest Hill Road surgery user.

[KalamityKel]

Tut tut

[PeckhamRose]

For what it's worth I started a topics with these links on to petitions ages ago and I hope everyone signed them then!

Having said that, my own local doctors surgery Nunhead Surgery are absolutely against the idea.

Hoorah for them!

[louisiana]

PR, I too have protested in the past, via the PCT, a previous petition, etc. But nothing has changed.

And today I had to call the doc again. So I also registered my protest - again - with the FH practice manager, and signed the current No 10 petition. FH practice blames BT/Ofcom/the mobile operators. But the choice of 08-number was theirs alone. They also mention that other govt agencies use 08-numbers, as an excuse. But two wrongs don't make a right.

[KalamityKel]

Money flashes before their eyes (the thought of getting a small share in the charge of the call) and amazingly it seems a good idea... "management" pah!