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vqmismatch · 2014-09-08 20:13:34

As a junior doctor is there any way can I waive crem form fees for cases that are thought to be under particular hardship? My understanding in my current place of work is that I get paid cash at the time of filling out the form, the trust then bill the funeral director who then bill the estate. A friend who used to…

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g6jns_2 Posts: 1,214 Forumite

10 September 2014 at 8:39PM

Flugelhorn wrote: »

I think completing cremation forms is outside the contracted work of the NHS.

I thought this was the reason it was called Ash Cash as it supplemented the doctors normal income and historically the Funeral Directors paid it in readies.

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