NHS Direct costs £5 million per phone?

Well, according to David Prescott it does anyway. His Save NHS Direct campaign (that's the campaign against the previous Labour Government's policy incidentally), says,

Hmm only 24 phones at a cost of £123m.. no wonder Lansley thinks it's costly!

In all seriousness though, it is rather amusing to see Labour people falling over themselves to "save" something that for all intent and purpose appears to be having a name change and errrr was actually their policy when they were in Government.

Opposition for opposition sake.

Hat Tip: A reader.