Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Calls to the NHS non-emergency helpline in Scotland are to be free from next summer.
At the moment people dial an 11-digit number and pay the price of a local phone call when they ring the NHS 24 service.
From summer 2014 they will instead call 111 for non-urgent medical advice and will not be charged.
It comes after calls for the Scottish government to follow a similar change made in England and Wales.
NHS Direct - the equivalent service in England to NHS 24 - is gradually being replaced by the free-to-use 111 service.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-21149908
At the moment people dial an 11-digit number and pay the price of a local phone call when they ring the NHS 24 service.
From summer 2014 they will instead call 111 for non-urgent medical advice and will not be charged.
It comes after calls for the Scottish government to follow a similar change made in England and Wales.
NHS Direct - the equivalent service in England to NHS 24 - is gradually being replaced by the free-to-use 111 service.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-21149908