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Title: NHS GPs and Talk Talk Post by SilentCallsVictim on Sep 4th, 2009 at 5:54am
Members may be interested to read a comment submitted to the Talk Talk Members Forum via www.talktalkmembers.com/forums/sendmessage.php.
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I will report any meaningful response here. Any Talk Talk customer, entitled to register in the member’s forum, may wish to raise this topic in discussion there. Opal Telecom is the “business to business” division of the Talk Talk Group, which provides the 0844 numbers used by GPs adopting the “Surgery Line” system. |
Title: Re: NHS GPs and Talk Talk Post by SilentCallsVictim on Sep 4th, 2009 at 6:06am
As posted previously on this specific topic.
SilentCallsVictim wrote on Aug 30th, 2009 at 8:45am:
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Title: Re: NHS GPs and Talk Talk Post by agentq on Sep 5th, 2009 at 3:13pm
Well my Dad is a GP and he fully supports the fact that all NHS GPs and hospitals should publish a geographical landline number. There is no excuse for it. Although I have an 0845 number myself I have no hesitation in openly publishing the geographical landline number to which it diverts to. i very much hope that other people follow suit.
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Title: Re: NHS GPs and Talk Talk Post by SilentCallsVictim on Sep 5th, 2009 at 3:37pm agentq wrote on Sep 5th, 2009 at 3:13pm:
I suspect that your Dad is in the majority amongst his colleagues, although the GPC of the BMA supports the use of revenue sharing numbers. I suspect that the difference with your own situation is that you were not offered a complete telephone system, that eliminated the problem of callers getting engaged tone, for "free". If you had, you would have probably stopped to wonder where the catch was before you signed up to a seven year contract. The catch is that NHS patients pay premium telephone charges to access NHS services. These GPs can return themselves to compliance with the principles of the NHS by getting their number changed from 0844 to 0344 within the contract. (03 numbers are charged at no greater rate than geographic numbers.) That will however mean that they will lose the revenue share and have to pick up the bills for the line and the leased telephone equipment for the remainder of the term themselves - just like your Dad's practice does. |
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