The BBC report:

Hundreds of GPs still use 084 phone lines despite being told not to by the Department of Health three years ago.

Landline calls cost around 5p a minute, but charges are considerably more from a mobile.

Radio 4’s You & Yours found that 531 surgeries in England still use them, 29 in Wales and very few in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.