Gift for hospital ward staff?

[Sadik]

Just that really, we'll send a card of course but I'd like to send a small gift to the ward, all the staff really went above & beyond & wondering what would be good.

I'd wondered about an M&S voucher as there's one right next to the hospital rather than the obvious chocs/biscuits.

I think that's a lovely idea as they might want to buy nice tea/coffee with it instead of - you might just need to bear in mind that Trusts have policies about high value gifting, so keep it under £50 and you should be fine. What a lovely gesture and so kind of you to think of it.

That's good to know, I assumed I'd be OK if it wasn't a large amount, but it was one thing wanted to check.

-Nice coffee/tea
-Nice biscuits
-Hamper/bowl of fresh fruit

Chocs are nice, but also lovely to get something a bit healthier.

Due to rules on gifting, I made a hamper of fresh fruit, some baked items, box of chocolates and tea, coffee and hot choc for the ward after a stay.

Not very exciting, but boxes of (cheap) pens.
There are never enough pens - ever!

Hmm - not sure pens is quite what I was thinking of!

Individual thank you cards specifying how a person went above and beyond would be very gratefully received. As well as it always being nice to be thanked, they can be used for revalidation as examples of positive patient feedback.

Another one saying pens - having a lovely, good quality black biro makes all the difference to a shift.

When my daughter came out of hospital after 9 weeks in hospital I was told by the nurses that card with names on is the best thing they can get as it is used in revaludation.

I was going to get a gift card for Costa coffee as it's in the hospital but got told the people who are on that shift when I hand it over would spend it all, and buying an individual gift card would end up being very expensive. I bought boxes of choc biscuits for them to distribute out

Coffee Bags

Tea Bags and individually wrapped things like Tunnocks Teacakes. Little packets of Haribo Giant Strawbs are good because they are vegan and halal so most staff can eat them. Same with Maoam MaoMix

Maybe a bit boring, but we took in cards plus tins of M&S chocolate biscuits, to the 2 wards I was in. Plus I was so grateful to them all (I was in for 3 weeks and initially very ill) I made a hefty donation to the hospital charity.