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You have to pay for ultrasound photo in uk?

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DonnaLlyn · 15/10/2014 15:05

How much does it cost for your ultrasound photo? I hope they print it off on nice photographic paper then, if they're going to charge for as little as printing off an image!

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SeptemberBabies · 15/10/2014 15:08

They didn't used to in the hospitals near me. But have just recently started charging for the prints. £5 for one or £10 for three images.

katandkits · 15/10/2014 15:09

Its not on especially fancy paper, no, but photographic paper isn't free and I think a small charge is fair enough.in think I paid £5 for 4 pictures. The scan is for medical reasons, its not a medical necessity to have a souvenir photo of it. So the NHS could do away with pictures altogether although that would be mean. What annoys me is paying £2.80 for the hospital car park.

JuniperTisane · 15/10/2014 15:11

Depends on the hospital. Mine were free but lots of signs in reception and the scan room pointing towards the donation box for the NICU.

TinyTear · 15/10/2014 15:12

3 years ago it was about £2

a couple of weeks ago I didn't pay as the token machine was broken but they still gave me 3 photos

iamelectrogirl · 15/10/2014 15:14

It's £10 per picture at our hospital luckily my mum is a midwife there so I usually got at least 6 or 7 extra secret prints thrown in. They happily admit it costs almost nothing to print the images though

twiglet2 · 15/10/2014 15:15

We were asked to give a donation to a charity that supports our hospital and were given an envelope, but it was up to us how much we gave. I thought that was quite a nice idea.

WhyOWhyWouldYou · 15/10/2014 15:19

Cost varies vastly by hospital - last time the first hospital was £5 for one or £10 for 3 - they did put the photos in little card display wallet, the second hospital was free of charge and gave you 3-7photos but the were just stuffed in an envelope (but they have since started charging £3). The hospital I'm under now charges £5 for 3 photos and put one in a nice cardboard display wallet and the others are just slotted inside, they usually give you a picture or two more than the 3 you pay for and only actually charged me at 12week scan haven't at 20week or 20week rescan (baby didn't cooperate at first).

They print it onto the heat paper, so you will need to protect from sunlight and heat.

SeaSaltMill · 15/10/2014 15:28

They charge £6 per photo at my hospital, but both times the cashier desk has been closed so we got them for free!

Tomuchtosay · 15/10/2014 15:29

Donnalyn are you in the USA?
If so... I've always wondered how much an ultrasound costs? Just curious

ShatnersBassoon · 15/10/2014 15:33

I think we paid £3 each time. It went to the neonatal care unit and seemed a fair charge for an 'extra'.

weeblueberry · 15/10/2014 15:37

We have a donation box in our hospital. The sonographer was lovely enough to print off about 8 photos for me because DP wasn't able to come to the first scan. So we left £5. :)

OwlCapone · 15/10/2014 15:39

The scan is for medical reasons, its not a medical necessity to have a souvenir photo of it.

This.

happypotamus · 15/10/2014 15:46

We paid I think £6 for 2 photos of 12 week scan. They have now installed a payment machine that takes cards. 3yrs ago when we had DC1 you had to have the exact change in £ coins (as well as exact change for car parking).
My 20 week was done in a fetal medicine clinic and was especially detailed due to my underlying medical condition. We didn't have to pay for photos there, but were invited to make a donation. We gave as close as we could to what we would have paid if we had had a normal 20 week scan in the normal ultrasound department, but to give a donation we needed cash and didn't have quite enough.

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DonnaLlyn · 15/10/2014 15:47

Considering how much it costs to get a pack of photos printed off normally, I'd say the prices are a bit steep! Especially if its not a real photo, just a print off! Ah well, they do say the nhs doesn't get enough money...but still!

I'd expected £2-3 at the most.

Tomuchtosay, no I'm in UK so I don't know about that

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HaroldLloyd · 15/10/2014 15:47

I think it's fair enough, it's only a small payment.

I think we could have one free or for a fee quid they would be happy to print quite a few for you.

Pointlessfan · 15/10/2014 15:50

Both of my scan pictures were so bad they let me have them for free! I wouldn't have minded making a charity donation though.

RabidFairy · 15/10/2014 15:51

I think it's perfectly reasonable to charge up to £10 for 3 photos. We got extras with DD as the sonographer wasn't happy with the quality of the first images. Getting photos from a medical scan is a bonus frankly and I am more than happy to give a little extra to support my local mw care given how our own government is not

TortoiseUpATreeAgain · 15/10/2014 15:52

It was £5 for two photographs when we did it (although they generally threw in an extra one as well).

In the nicest possible way, the NHS is a state-funded medical service, not a portrait studio. It's not in a position to provide life-saving treatment to everyone who needs it; providing free photographs shouldn't be a priority for resource allocation.

Biscoff · 15/10/2014 15:53

Errr... We don't pay for the scans - most countries have pay for their antenatal care. I know which I'd rather have!

OwlCapone · 15/10/2014 15:53

If you don't like the price, don't get the picture. Print one off the internet - they all look the same anyway. Also, they become irrelevant once the baby is born.

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 15/10/2014 15:55

At my hospital it's free for the 12 week scan, £5 for 20 week scan (5 pics), free for rescan and free for growth scans.

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DonnaLlyn · 15/10/2014 15:55

It's not a medical necessity, but its the only photo I'll have of my baby for months, so in fact I'd be willing to pay an awful lot for it. It might be run of the mill to experienced moms, but not for me. It seems kind of exploitative in a way though, charging £5-£10 for a couple of photos - like I say, I would pay a lot for it because I have not had a baby before, but I'm not well off - the opposite, in fact, and its annoying that I'll have to seriously consider whether I can afford one measly photo of my baby.

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HaroldLloyd · 15/10/2014 15:56

It's not exploitative.

ouryve · 15/10/2014 15:57

We had to pay a token amount, 9 years ago. Fair enough. It's not like having the photo was essential to my maternity care and the NHS has other things it need to be spending its money on.

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