What can I get a male health professional as a small thank you gift?? Wine? Yey or ney?

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Had to seek some assistance for a health issue and everywhere was fully booked eg for weeks. The issues I had needed to be seen just incase it was something sinister.

A lovely guy with a private practice understood I was really concerned, so I squeezed me in that day and I didn’t get charged.

I wanted to get a thank you card and a small gift to show my appreciation as he was the only one willing to see me ASAP (and you know what waiting is like if you’re waiting for results, it’s really hard and stressful)

I feel like chocolates or wine is a bit ‘girly’, or maybe it’s not? If it was a woman that’s what I’d get but I’m a bit reluctant to for a man?

Any ideas? Thanks 😊

he squeezed me in that day

DH gets wine quite often and he's always happy with that! (As am I )

a card would be a lovely gesture, with a nice message saying thanks for what he did and some detail on why it was helpful to you. Drs I know would like that as they could use it in their appraisal.

I don't know if he'd be able to accept a personal gift from a patient, his practice might have rules on this. I could be wrong on this but it might be easier to give something for the practice team to share, fruit or biscuits, say?

I'd second whether he could accept a gift but fancy chocolates that could be shared would be a safe option

I think chocs or biscuits would be fine. As others have said a thoughtful thank you card means so much, the gift is secondary. Also hand cream is a good one (we wash our hands so much).

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Thanks for the input everyone. I’m thinking a nice of nice biscuits, then he can share them with the staff if he’s not allowed gift.

Nice box/tin I mean

My DH gets wine, biscuits, chocolates. But just a nice note is fine.

Rules used to be you can accept anything under £20 without declaring it. I think it's gone up to £50 now. If you want to say thank you to whole team then chocolates, biscuits, cake. If more personal then wine or flowers etc.

There's an expectation that food gets shared.

In my practice we are not allowed to accept alcohol as it is seen as bribery! Such nonsense. If u are handing in something like biscuits or chocolate put it in a sealed bag with a card for him on it as if u hand it to reception he may never get it or know its from u as nurses/receptionist will just scoff the biscuits and not say. This happens in my work all the time and I only discover a nice patient left me a present when I notice a nearly empty packet of nice biscuits left in the staff area