How best to say thank you to GP practice?

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I'm very lucky in that my GP practice is absolutely brilliant and they've been wonderful to my whole family this year through a variety of health issues.

We've interacted with a number of staff directly, plus a lot of support staff will have helped without us knowing.

I'd like to send a really heartfelt thank you/Christmas card, plus a gift, to all of the staff, but I don't know what to get. Anyone work in a GP surgery and can advise? I don't want to get generic chocolates/biscuits unless everyone says that would be the best thing.

I’m sure they will appreciate a card and message. There are a lot of employees in our GP practice and can only think biscuits or chocolates would be well received for the staff room. DH was in our local private hospital so many times that I ran out of ideas and went to Body Shop and filled a wicker basket with mini toiletries.

I baked a cake for my ophthalmologist and the rest of his team - think it went down well.

Very niche present but my GP really went out on a limb for me and I wrote her a card and got her a Neom “de-stress” scented Christmas tree decoration. I didn’t want to get food or booze and didn’t want to go over the top. I then doubted myself thinking how thoughtless I was as given her name and ethnicity she was likely to not celebrate Christmas - but before I knew it she was on the phone calling
me just about in tears saying that I’d completely made her day and she was so grateful. I now realise it’s the thought that definitely counts and I make more of an effort to send thank you cards, send positive emails etc.

You could hand in a thank you card along with some nice biscuits or chocolates.Teabags and a jar of coffee would also be very welcome in most staff rooms

Should have added how about nice reed diffusers for the consulting rooms and staff room( don't think candles would be allowed)

Maybe chocolate and some fruit or just fruit depending on budget as so many people diet (all year but also run up to Christmas)

Chocolates and biscuits are always appreciated.

please - not anything scented if it might be used in public spaces - some of us have enough difficulty with breathing as it is!

I think people pretend to like home baked stuff but does anyone really eat it when you don't know the person or their cleanliness standards.

The Tesco Finest range do some nice large cakes, ie white chocolate and raspberry or trillionaire cakes. Maybe a couple of those?

When I had to have emergency surgery last year I bought the ward staff 6 large multipacks of those latte coffees in various flavours, a big box of twinnings tea, 4 jars of hot chocolate powder and 12 packets of assorted biscuits. I also included A thank you card and a box of assorted hand creams as the nurses washed their gags so many times I was amazed they still had skin left. They were very grateful .

I work in healthcare and agree hand cream and coffees as per @WitchyBits

Also a thank you card, I have some from my patients and they are lovely to have and also helpful for my appraisal.

What about some nice hand cream for the staff room? Lots of hand washing and dry hands.

I agree, I work in a hospital and as lovely as it is when patients make us cakes at home I never touch them!

OP patients buy us biscuits, chocolates and cake which we then all share on shift.

When my dad was looked after in hospital to say thank-you we bought them crisps, soft drinks, ready made sandwiches from m and s (the platters) cake, sweets and dips for the crisps, basically a big buffet. He had been on the ward for months so we got to know the nurses very well and knew this would go down well!

A plant for the office or break room and a heart felt thank you letter would be my choice. Every time they see it thy will be reminded of your gratitude.

Yes to the wee sachets of flavoured coffee idea- maybe even a box of those biscuits like you’d find in a b and b- wrapped in pairs. A box of teabags and a jar of coffee. I wouldn’t go for a cake as once it’s been cut it’s hard to share in time with other staff- most GP surgeries don’t have shared lunch or tea breaks. Deffo a card for those you know by name who have helped out… there are staff toilets at our GP surgery so 3/4 nice hand washes could also be used by everyone shared.

I have given NHS staff cake, biscuits, alcohol, shopping vouchers and a nativity set. The nativity set was from Ecuador and comes out every year at my GP practice.

After being admitted via A and E I got bag of snacks, crisps biscuits, snacks, things they could grab even if busy.

Oh and some text books, a HCA going to uni for nursing and I had just stopped teaching so my books would just sit on a shelf.

I think something for everyone in the practice or something easily divided are the best options.

When my siblings & I needed to thank our local hospital, we sent chocolates & a card but we also gave positive reviews on the trust website & tweeted about how great they’d been, tagging the trust & its chief executive. That was appreciated too.

All fabulous ideas, thanks everyone.

An email detailing your feedback which can be used for when they’re reviewed.
tea, coffee & hot chocolate go a long way & so do plants that need little care.

I work at a surgery.

We love biscuits and chocolates but get loads at Christmas so now is a better time.

We would also really love you to fill in a Friends and Family Form with your feedback.

This. Home made cakes by patients don't get eaten.

I'd send in a selection of hot beverage options e.g. hot chocolate, tea bags including herbal, decaf, and some coffee (to go with all the biscuits they'll get!)

I wanted to give something to thank the cancer team that treated me and couldn't think what to get, given there were so many Drs/nurses/assistants that I saw regularly. In the end I wrote a long letter, thanking everyone individually, addressed to whoever was in charge (but handed to the team so they all got to read it). They appreciated that much more than a physical gift.

When I finished my cancer treatment, I took a ton of cakes into the unit, largely made up of different traybakes (bought for safety purposes and I'm no baker!). They were so gratefully received. Otherwise a couple of the large tins of Quality Street or a Christmas biscuit selection box?