HI folks, yes, I am finally back although still not firing on all cylinders!
I have got post-shingles pain in my side plus I had a fight with a blind lad the other day and twisted my sacroiliac joint. Not really a fight, he stuck his white stick out under my legs as I was walking past him.
Anyway, enough about me, here is some news that might affect you:
A large number of doctors surgeries have changed their contact phone number from an ordinary 01/02 phone number, included in landline and mobile phone fixed price call packages, to a ripoff
special rate services 0844 number (BT speak for covert premium rate numbers)
. These are
charged at ?3 per hour at all times from BT landlines (even if you have an inclusive calls package), ?8.10 per hour at all times from a BT Payphone and and
up to ?24 per hour from some Pay As You Go mobile phones.
The petition to sign against these ripoff numbers is at petitions.pm.gov.uk/NGN-use-by-GPs/
The petition is already 50th out of 8000 on the 10 Downing Street website so a few more signatures should get it from Page 2 to Page 1 by size on the Petitions website and ensure it gets some more coverage in the national newspapers.
Hope this is helpful
Best to all,
DocSarah