£5 a scan picture?!

[CSISaraSidle]

I was at my ultrasound scan the other day and decided I'd quite like a picture. When my mum had me she got it in a lovely little card thing with corner cutouts to hold it. It was very sweet, and I assumed mine would be the same!
When I was handed a tear off printout that had been torn badly and was told "that'll be £5, please pay at this machine" I was a little !

Who do you think should pay for it?

They aren't obliged to provide a picture at all!! Why should they foot the bill for a non essential?

Printed scan images are of no use to them. It's for your benefit only so not sure why you'd expect it for free?

I have to pay at my local hospital too.

It's the NHS. Which needs to save money. As much as it's nice to have a picture, it's not a necessity.

Beside there's lots of spare money in the NHS

So why do you think you should get it for free?

It's a nice thing to have, but not medically necessary. The NHS is underfunded and struggling, so I think it's fair enough that they charge for things like that.

£5? Lucky you! When I had DD in 2013 mine charged £7

£5 is a lot for one print, I'm all for charging and covering costs but this excessive cost may stop poorer families from having a print from their scan.

Actually you could have just asked for a non torn picture.

If you think £5 is a lot you are going to have a nasty surprise when you start the nursery and school photo merry go round.

It's not like a photo booth!

This is proper ,expensive equipment

When did they start giving out scan photos? My mum doesn’t have any from when I was born in the early 90s.

I'm happy to pay for the picture, I just think £5 is a bit expensive! But now I think about it it's probably got some of the cost of the actual scan in there to alleviate the NHS burden. I was mostly a bit upset that it didn't come in a card folder like mum's, her said "Congratulations! From (hospital name)" and had a picture of a pram. Although thinking about that it could be a bit insensitive for mothers who miscarry, so I guess I was being unreasonable all along!

Did you think it should have come out of the £350m pw Brexit money?

I was born in '95, and I think she even has one from my older brother who was born in '79 but I'd have to ask!

This is the same at my hospital, except each time (3), they’ve given it to me for free! I’ve seen others pay. I paid for my own gestational diabetes needles though, as I felt a bit guilty.

Mine were a pound each in 2014.

Hahaha I'm looking forward to seeing the day the NHS sees a penny of Leave's brexit money!

Its £5 for one £10 for them at my hospital. Bargain compared to a private scan. Yabu. Who do you expect to pay for the picture

I agree, I thought a fiver was pretty steep for a print that probably cost the NHS 10p! I had a private scan the day before my first scan and they gave me about 20+ pics so I can’t imagine they are that expensive to print out!

You wanted it presented in a decorated folder!??

Who pays for that?? It's just more tat

You pay £5 for 3 of the same images at my local maternity hospital, and they don't come in a card as due to the number of women they see they don't have time for that.

Scans are for medical reasons, not to give pretty cards to parents.

Given you are having free maternity care and your child will benefit from free healthcare and schooling it's not too much to ask you pay for a non essential picture is it.

It's an easy was for the NHS to make money. I bet people would still buy them if they were £20 so they could make a lot more money

Runmummyrun, I thought that's what I was paying for at first! But I've thought about it now and I've realised I was being U, it's probably so expensive because it helps cover the costs of (actually very expensive) ultrasounds themselves