Can I give a voucher to the Nhs staff caring for my husband?

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My husband was admitted to hospital recently, and it was quite unexpected. He is quite ill. We were both completely stunned by the diagnosis, and as a consequence, really scared.
I have been a pain in the arse, asking questions, and asking for explanations about what is happening. The ward where he is, is completely full, and the A&E he was seen in has been very full every day since he was admitted. The staff, nurses and doctors have been so lovely to the both of us, despite how obviously overrun they are.
I know there is a supermarket very close to the hospital, and would like to give them a voucher to use, to buy something for the staff, but I’m worried they wouldn’t be allowed to accept this?
I know I could order pizzas or biscuits, but, maybe they’d like to choose their own reward?
Could anyone in the NHS best advise me how Incould demonstrate my appreciation of how kind they have been to us?

They will probably have to surrender a voucher but they would be able to accept some nice biscuits for the staff room.

Can NHS workers accept gifts?

The guidance will permit staff, such as nurses, to receive a box of chocolates or other small tokens of gratitude from patients but will require them to decline anything that could be seen to affect their professional judgement. Gifts with a value over £50, accepted on behalf of organisations, will need to be declared.

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What a lovely thought. In every Trust I've worked in we've been allowed to accept gifts we could share with the rest of the team (chocolates, flowers etc), but each Trust will have their own policy on this so you could always check with PALS.

It’s very kind of you but vouchers are apparently a bit of a no no, whereas wine/biscuits/chocolates etc are acceptable. I learned this the hard way (I’m not usually customer facing but got involved in the vaccine rollout) when some v kind people got me an M&S voucher and I was told k shouldn’t accept it (I did, and spent it on wine, and didn’t tell anyone and didn’t feel guilty!)

Big tubs of wrapped sweets (quality street etc) and a nice card.

actually what would go down really well would be a stonking great big box of good quality black biros.

How was breaking the rules learning the hard way, or do you mean you got caught?

Would they appreciate biscuits? I was worried that they’d be sick and tired of them?

I’m glad you started this thread. There are a lot of NHS and GP practice staff I have reason to be grateful to.

So maybe an envelope of £5 vouchers would be ok to be shared around, up to the magic £50?

Or coffee and tea? That’s expensive now so maybe a tea and coffee ‘hamper’ thing might be welcome for the staff room.

Sometimes a nice biscuit is what gets you through a shift! Everyone loves a biscuit/ choccies

Biscuits, donuts, sweets, chocolates, cakes all go down very well! We have had patients family bring in food ie Chinese takeaway /pizza . Also hand cream goes down well

Black biros are greatly appreciated.

Thank you @MrsPinkSky , I will take that into account when I make my gift. All I want is to give the nhs staff something they’d appreciate.

Black biros absolutely!

Biscuits are always welcome as is coffee / tea where I am (we have to bring our own or some teams have a kitty to buy it).

Also love a card / letter. I have kept cards and notes for years- and we can use them for revalidation.

Things that make nurses and HCAs get excited on my ward are pens, hand creams and sweets we can jam in our pockets (individually wrapped). Chocolates never make it past the first shift and all you find are wrappers and an empty tub!

What matters the most are cards and letters because thanks are few and far between (in mental health at least) and cards are pinned to the staff room wall. Sometimes when we are having a tough day I read the cards and they remind me why I do what I do.

So essentially goodies are always welcome but a card means a 1000 times more. Everyone, including housekeepers and admin staff make a ward run well.

@pastabest @Mandatorymongoose I will defintely include some black biros, but, fuck me, are we so broke, we can’t supply pens?

This is a good deal OP. A pack of 50 black biros for less than a tenner.

I gave 3x £10 m&s gift cards to the nurses who looked after my daughter. Told them lunch was on me and how grateful I was.

Are black biros for the NHS the equivalent of glue sticks for schools? It’s sad we have got to this level

I did a bag after my spinal op which had
Black pens
coffee sachets like the latte ones
Those mini squeeze bottles of squash
Mints
Sweets
Mr Kipling type cakes as individually wrapped
Biscuits
Chocolate share bags
Dried fruit (urban fruit I think it's called)
Hand cream
I had a load of samples of beauty stuff and face masks so added those
Basically raided the supermarket for anything I would like on a shift!

Also a card so they could photocopy it for files, and my magazines as it was a night shift

The nhs does buy pens for staff but they are cheap, nasty and scratchy if that makes sense.
Coffee, tea, biscuits and chocolates go down well.
The staff will appreciate any gift as its not expected at all it's our jobs. Sometimes, when we don't get breaks the chocolates and biscuits keep us going through our shifts as we can eat these whilst doing notes!

Lol. Biscuits and tubs of roses, quality street, heroes etc always seem to go down very well.

The big round Christmas tubs of Heroes etc are in the supermarkets now OP, stock up on those and take in a couple every few days with a note stuck to the lid with your thanks. My husband was in for 13 weeks and I used to pop one on the ward station every few days and then we did thank you cards when he left, and sent donuts from a local donut place to his outpatient ward on special occasions like Nurse's Day and various birthdays.

Black biros would not be appreciated at all on on our dept we have hundreds. A nice mix of biscuits, chocs, crisps, coffee sachets, fruit will never fail as there's something for everyone.

A patient donated some money to our ED recently and the matron used it to buy loads of ice creams for everyone which were really appreciated.

Financial gifts have to be handed over to whoever runs the ward. The money is usually used to purchase Christmas or holiday food for the ward staff working then. Sweets and chocolates are not the healthiest, so maybe a selection of hand creams, bath and shower gels, fancy soaps etc. Then they can choose what they want