We went to the SGK office today to try and get on to what we believed was going to be the SSK system. When we spoke to Cagatay, very helpful, he advised us that he would be entering me onto the Bagkur system. This is a cost of approximately 275TL per month. My understanding is that this system is only open for foreigners at certain times of the year. Looks like we were lucky.
Anyway, we filled out all the documentation, then went to the Ziraat Odasi, beside the Letoon Hospital, got the form stamped and then went back to Cagatay who will now enter me on to the system. We have to go back in about a month, and at that time I will now be live on the system and we should be able to add on my husband.
The only slight blip on the horizon is that due to new regulations, because my husband is in receipt of a pension it seems that we have to get some sort of official document from the British Consul to say that he is not entitled to treatment in the UK on the NHS. We are off to the Consul office tomorrow so we will see what happens there.