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The NHS has been censured for promoting hundreds of 0844 telephone numbers without explaining that users can be hit with rip-off charges of up to 41p a minute.
Critics say charging people to access the NHS flies in the face of the principle that its medical services should be free at the point of delivery.
However, hundreds of doctors of surgeries continue to use expensive 0844 numbers.
And now the NHS Choices website, which describes itself as the ?front door to the NHS? has been found guilty of promoting these expensive GP numbers without spelling out the cost involved.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-patients-unexpected-charges-41p-MINUTE.html
Critics say charging people to access the NHS flies in the face of the principle that its medical services should be free at the point of delivery.
However, hundreds of doctors of surgeries continue to use expensive 0844 numbers.
And now the NHS Choices website, which describes itself as the ?front door to the NHS? has been found guilty of promoting these expensive GP numbers without spelling out the cost involved.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-patients-unexpected-charges-41p-MINUTE.html