> ACR. Anonymous Caller Rejection is one solution, but it would be
> unusual for a medical service to set the switch to reject all calls
> with CLI disabled, at present.
> (Digital Dot tells the caller "this number does not accept calls
> without caller lin information, you have the choice of dialling the
> prefix 1471 to release CLI for this call, or making a call from
> another telephoine with CLI enabled." Being a telephone robot she
> doesn't add " ... or writing a letter attending in person or just
> giving up the whole idea" because those would not be conceivable.)
Oh. If I do that, and a critically ill patient doesn't get through, they put me into
the deepest dungeon and throw the key away :-( I am afraid that medical practitioners
are obliged to highest possible availability.
> Increments is all there are, and usually small increments.
> But we are aiming to nudge the times down from 5 sec to 4 sec and so
> on... not to change the world.
You are right. That's why I will try to log our CLIs for the next two months and see
what results. As we are not the "typical" practice, I would be most interested in
similar statistices from as many places as we can get.
Horst
