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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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fuctifino · 15/10/2014 16:50

If you go for a private scan, you get endless photos free WinkGrin

Missunreasonable · 15/10/2014 16:51

Then don't waste it and stop bloody complaining. FFS.
Are you also going to be working double and triple shifts once the baby arrives because if you are the childcare will cost you a fortune and you will soon realise that £5 - £10 for luxury items is a drop in the ocean.

Hamiltoes · 15/10/2014 16:52

I think the simple answer here is if you don't like the £10 charge, don't pay for it! If really can't go without one then save a bit for a few weeks so you have the £10.

I'm not saying this from my rolling in money pedastal, i'm in a situation where every £10 counts too... But please trust me when i say this is only the start of it! If you find £10 a hard figure to come up with for what you class an essential spend and have been given 8 weeks notice (between 12 and 20 week stage) then you may want to have a look at your financal forecasting/ budgeting and general money situation because its only going to get harder from here on out, babies are expensive and essential spends can come up unexpected within hours. So you need to ask yourself wether this scan pic is an essential spend and put a plan in place so you have the money.

WhyOWhyWouldYou · 15/10/2014 16:54

*scan pic not scan

PenguinsIsSleepDeprived · 15/10/2014 16:54

"It's people who are being argumentative for the sake of stirring things up, and who aren't reading the explanations properly."

Nobody has done that. As I said, you drip fed your financial situation and people don't always see all subsequent posts (particularly on phones where it is harder to scroll). And they were responding to your 'only place to get them' argument. Which it isn't, though it is by far the cheapest.

I understand your budget is tight, so don't buy any if they are costly. There are other ways to tell your family your news.

Missunreasonable · 15/10/2014 16:55

Goodness knows what the OP is going to do when her child is old enough to go to school and needs uniform and lunch money and comes home with endless letters for trips and mufti days and charity events. After all she has paid her taxes so should be exempt from paying anything else ever againConfused

Only1scoop · 15/10/2014 16:58

Ffs read your own Op Op

You were even questioning the quality of the photographic parchment they will use in the UK....Confused

Jeez....

I'd certainly start budgeting if I were you....

And by the way it's normally on flimsy paper which fades over time....

DonnaLlyn · 15/10/2014 17:07

All I was asking was how much scan photographs were. I then expressed surprise at the cost of some. I acknowledged that my hospital might not charge so much, and agreed that if I disagree with the price I should not pay for them.

People are attatcking me left right and centre, and that's not fair, and when you requote me you are adding things and phrasing it in a way thats making it sound worse. (Owhywouldyou, for instance I don't have a problem with 'a few quid', like I have said repeatedly) I hadn't realsed the things I said were so offensive. I probably shouldn't have allowed people to goad me into continuing this conversation once it went past what the photos cost.

I'm sorry for everyone who I offended and I assure you that everyone who thinks I am being 'unreasonable' etc is reading too much into this. I don't literally think the NHS is exploitative, I made the mistake of thinking this was a casual conversation and wrote this without as much thought as I probably should have. Then again it is the only place I can get these (sometimes) over priced print offs. A private scan is literally not an option at those prices either.

This is the first time I have been pregnant, so no, I don't know what to expect when it comes to prices for anything.

I would appreciate if everyone just let this lie, I won't be checking back because like I have said, this pregnancy business is new to me and I am having all the usual worries and lack of confidence problems and to be honest this hasn't helped.

Thanks for all the helpful posts which told me the costs of the photos - this is what I was actually looking for. And also thanks to the people who suggested taking a photo of the screen. If my hospital does charge more than I can afford, I will do this if they let me.

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WhyOWhyWouldYou · 15/10/2014 17:15

You say you "don't have a problem with a few quid" - yet you are throwing your toys out the pram about the fact that your hospital might charge something. Just call them and ask, as my first post started by saying: it varies a lot from one hospital to another.

mrsmilkymoo · 15/10/2014 17:26

You might not be allowed to take a photo of the screen. Our hospital had signs up prohibiting this.

beth1987 · 15/10/2014 18:11

At 12wk got told it was £2 a photo, how many did I want? But... I had used all my change on car parking machine and only had a tenner, was told they didn't have change so I suppose I will have to just have it now she had printed it! (scanner was arsey). Was a bit embarrasing!
After 12wk was given information about scan on piece of paper including that photo's were £2 each and correct change was needed.
At 20wk asked for one photo printed and scanner lady (sonographer?) gave me two for £2. However the scanner at 20wk was much more pleasant.
Photo's just came printed but midwife gave me a plastic sleeve after 12wk to keep it dry/safe.

JennyBlueWren · 15/10/2014 18:36

We weren't charged at all nor asked for a donation.
We weren't asked whether we wanted any photos -the sonographer just presses a button every so often when they get a good view and they come out. There's some they have to keep e.g. for measurements and the rest they give to us. I think I've had about 8 with each scan (3 scans).
Would be happy with a donation box though generally charging for things when you're in a hospital is a bit awkward.

leanne963 · 15/10/2014 19:00

Is this post a joke? I can't find the energy to seriously argue £4 for a picture of your future baby. Hmm

helensburgh · 15/10/2014 19:00

Free in my part of the uk

skyra13 · 15/10/2014 19:02

My hospital just asked for a donation if your were able to an suggested £5, to be honest i was happy to pay that after getting to see my baby :)
The staff were lovely also.

OwlCapone · 15/10/2014 19:25

You have just find out you are pregnant.

Like I suggested, save £1 a week and you will have enough money for whatever they ask for as a donation. You might even have some left over.

sleepyhead · 15/10/2014 19:36

Free here both pregnancies. I vaguely recall there being a charity box first time around but certainly no pressure to pay anything if you didn't want to.

DanyStormborn · 16/10/2014 09:38

My hospital charges £5 (cash only) and you get three different images on one bit of photo paper. I think this is totally reasonable and would be willing to pay a bit more as the sonographer has to select three decent pictures from the scan and print them off. I think the charge is good as it reinforces the point that the scan is a medical test and getting pictures isn't the point - it is an nice extra.

indyandlara · 16/10/2014 09:52

I know just how precious scan pictures can be. Our son was stillborn and scan pictures and some from the day he was born are the only ones I will ever have of him. They are priceless. However, I also acknowledge that they are simply a bonus from an important medical procedure. Scans are not photo sessions as others have said. They are health checks. A few pounds here and there really are nothing in the longer term of what it costs to have a baby. If by charging for photos hospital units can fund something else, then I'm all for it. I would hate for another service to be cut so people could get free scan pictures. Oh and I just paid £40 for 3 school pictures so £10 seems like quite a bargain.

ffallada · 16/10/2014 11:26

Indyandlara sorry for your loss.

In Scotland we do not pay for pictures- but neither do we pay prescription charges, or hospital car parking charges (unless you are unlucky enough to be visiting one of the two car parks that were build under PFI before the Scottish Government banned such stupid funding mechanisms) .

Free at the point of use means something completely different in England to what it does in Scotland.

These are yet another why Scotland is better

ffallada · 16/10/2014 11:27

another reason* (stupid phone)

indyandlara · 16/10/2014 13:07

I'm in Scotland and we did pay for pictures.

batteryhen · 16/10/2014 13:14

I would love to pay for a scan pic but I am not in the UK and getting a scan picture isn't even an option :(

wonkylegs · 16/10/2014 13:28

I paid about £2 for my 12week scan pictures (about 8 pictures)
My 20wk scan pictures were free as were the multiple extra scans I had due to my medical condition I always got at least 1 picture.
It's a privilege not a right to have any pictures and would have happily have paid for all of them.

OOAOML · 16/10/2014 14:35

We paid 8 years ago in Scotland - did it change after that? And 11 years ago in one of the ridiculous PFI hospitals they were charging for virtually everything. The food was so rank DH was bringing me stuff in as well.

Had my second child in a different hospital - much better!

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