Have other countries achieved standardisation and how did they go about doing this?

In 2004 the NHS U.K. sent out this safety alert.

By 2006 the ‘Crash Call’ telephone number had been standardised.

For more information on how the NHS achieved this please click on this link (see here).

The whole of Europe is now trying to standardise to 2222 (see here).

A recent survey in Europe has shown that 76% of European hospitals use a telephone to call the resuscitation team but at least 105 different numbers are used, ranging from 19 to 25445.