Scan Photos - What did you pay?

[JambalayaCodfishPie]

Having just read on a thread that one lady paid £10 for two photos, I'm wondering what other people have paid.

I remember paying a 'contribution' 7 years ago, £1.00 was advised. Surely it hasnt gone up that much?

I have plenty of RL friends I could ask, but that would out my pregnancy and I'm not quite ready for that just yet, so am doing a straw poll instead. :)

Is it something that varies from region-to region?

[TheBreadstick]

Yep, 5 quid a pop for photos here - I'm in Yorkshire. We also got told off for not having the correct change! By 'eck!

[Spellcheck]

We had to have 3 pound coins here in Hertfordshire, or forget it!

[Uglymush]

Sorry guys, I'm in Cumbria, have so far had 2 scans, an emergency one at about 10 weeks and a dating one at 11+2 weeks and both times were given 3 photos. I think I remember reading somewhere that we maybe asked to pay £2.50 per photo, but so far they have been free.

[BedHog]

Early scan photos were free.

12 and 20 weeks - £5 for 3. Although they'd give you any extras they had for free.

[MsScarlettInTheLibrary]

It said they would be £5 a picture on the letter and we took money, but in the end we were kept waiting for hours and hours, had to run out super fast to go get DD at the end, and just took notes and went....later found the pictures in the notes, noone ever asked us to pay for them.

[chrisrobin]

I'm in Wales and paid £4 for a scan picture (correct change only) 3 years ago but I noticed when I was in the radiography dept the other day this has now gone up to £5.

[Spirael]

I think the pictures for the 12 week scan were free, but were fairly poor quality in terms of both picture and print. The 20 week pictures were much better quality, but we were charged £5 per picture and absolutely had to have the right change. That was at Leeds General Infirmary last year.

[Ciske]

£2.00 per photo in our hospital, but usually the lady that does the scans is very generous and gives the entire string, so in practice it's a lot less.

[yummymango]

I think we paid about £2.50 or £3 per photo in South London, however, I was the one who brought it up with reception when I arrived and paid them for 3 photos. When I had the actual scan the sonographer gave me 4 pics. The second time I forgot to mention it to the receptionist but the sonographer still gave me 3 photos anyway.

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

I was asked to make a donation into honestly box. No sum suggested. Scotland 2 yrs ago.

[MissMI5]

At the Whittington in North London, the 12 week scan photos were free but the 20 week ones cost us £2 each.

[CollieandPup]

£4.50 per photo in Oldham, greater Manchester. And We did have to pay for each photo at both scans! Robbery!! Did get 1 photo free in Dec when our little bean had no heartbeat..... !

[Lollyheart]

£5 for one photo.
You have to put the correct change into a machine to print out a ticket to give to the sonographer.

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

£5 per photo in Surrey. Don't mind that so much, but I really do mind paying it all up front. It might not seem like a big deal but if you've been for a scan and had bad news then you take nothing for granted the next time. Paying for your photo up front feels too much like counting your chickens.

[Flowerydems]

I've been scanned in 3 different places in Scotland and I've only been asked to put a donation in an honesty box. Even then because we've had to have further scans they've just given us whatever pics they took and not batted an eye that I didn't drop any change in.

Maybe it's a Scottish NHS thing not to have to give any more than a small donation? I don't know anyone that's had to pay

[GlaikitFizzog]

Nothing, I had 6 scans in all at 2 different hospitals. There were signs at one hospital saying a discretionary charge of £1, but we were just handed our pictures. No mention of where to pay or drop the money.

I'm in Scotland too!

[wigglesrock]

Donation of £2 for the strip of photos, donation box left in waiting room and nice notice on waiting room wall, although the staff looked quite surprised when I dropped the money in. The hospital I had dds in, also had a white bodysuit with a slogan like "a midwife gave me a helping hand at ......." that you could buy with a recommended donation of £2.50 after the baby was born. I am in NI.

[bigmacandhappymeal]

Mine has an honesty box and we popped in a fiver for 4 photo's

[CollieandPup]

I really don't mind paying for photos but I think £4.50 (or thereabouts) is too much and is not a true reflection of the cost of printing that photo. We pay for the nhs via other means and scan photos should not be a means of income.

For some people £10 for a couple of photos is a significant amount of money they just can't afford to spend, which means they are then left unable to share that experience with their friends and family.

[Karmanna]

At our first scan the photos were complementary. At the anomaly scan it was £2 but there was something wrong with the printer and it just kept printing so we got about 10 pictures for our £2! Parents in law were pleased that they could get some copies! :)

[notcitrus]

£3 per pic for up to 3 pics, St Georges, South London - the 12 and 20 week pics
Same price as 2008, though then the EPU gave me one pic for free - you couldn't tell it was a baby!

It goes towards the printers and then the hospital charity that covers all sorts of 'non-essential' stuff, so I think it's reasonable - it's the scan that the NHS is covering, not the chance to coo wildly. But then I've never been interested in scan and baby photos - they all look the same really.

You only pay after the scan is done so I'd hope anyone with bad news would get photos free.

[nickelbabe]

when we went to our first scan, it was £6 for 2 photos.
when we went to the 2nd scan, they'd gone up to £7 for 2.
except we didn't get 2 photos (still ,yep!), we got one photo and 2 enlargements of the same photo.

[AKMD]

£5 for one photo here. You have to put 5 pound coins into a machine, which prints off a ticket to give to the sonographer.

[LoveInAColdClimate]

£6, which should have been for one but they gave us two.

[ciwi]

Can't believe some of you have had to pay £5 per photo! It's £2 here (recently gone up from £1) and I thought that was bad. I don't mind paying but the images are on really cheap, flimsy paper. If they were better quality I wouldn't mind paying more. Having said all that my little bean wouldn't stay still enough to get a good photo so they gave us them for free :)