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NHS employee? You can apply for 60,000 FREE Avios worth at least £480

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In May 2020, Avios asked members to donate points towards an appeal for NHS staff. The plan was to reward NHS workers for their efforts during the pandemic.

As we reported here, 305 million Avios were donated. IAG Loyalty donated 210 million and members donated 95 million.

If you are an NHS employee, you can now apply for a share, worth at least 60,000 Avios.

Avios NHS appeal

2,000 NHS staff have already received 60,000 Avios each via a nominations process run by Avios and NHS management.

Another 3,000 NHS staff can now apply directly to receive a gift of 60,000 Avios.

How do you apply for your free Avios?

Anyone with an nhs.net, nhs.scot, nhs.uk, hscni.net or similar email address qualifies to receive 60,000 Avios.

You need to visit this page of ba.com and submit the online form by 23rd December. The rules have been changed during Saturday to confirm that ALL NHS staff in the UK can apply.

It is a free draw. You do not need to justify what you would do with the Avios or what you have done to deserve them. Avios will select 3,000 people at random from those who apply and award them 60,000 points each.

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If fewer than 3,000 people apply, each applicant will receive a larger prize so that the entire 180 million Avios are allocated.

If you are a winner, you will receive your Avios by 13th February 2022.

60,000 Avios should be worth over £600 of free flights – our core article on what Avios points are worth is here.

The worse case scenario is that you convert them into 96,000 Nectar points. This will get you £480 of free shopping at Sainsbury’s or Argos.

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If you donated Avios during the NHS appeal last year, your points are going to good homes.

You can make your application via ba.com here.

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  • Dominic says:
    10 Dec10 December 06:01

    It’s a lucky day for a lot of business/tech consultants at the NHS…

    • BJ says:
      10 Dec10 December 06:32

      Yeah, really fed up with this all this NHS Heroes rubbish. The vast majority who benefit from these NHS Heroes offers have done little to nothing to combat covid and a relatively small proportion have faced increased risk to their physical and mental health by working the front line. I much admire those who have and salute their efforts and hope they have taken up the perks as much as possible, but all these benefits for NHS staff in general needs to stop. IMO it is an affront to the real Heroes of covid, those in food supply, retail and logistics industries for example, millions of whom are low paid. I feel it is them who have faced the greater risks and made the greater contribution to keeping the country ticking along during the pandemic than NHS staff in general.

      • Callum says:
        10 Dec10 December 06:49

        Well, IMO, you are a [words that cannot be published on here] and YOU need to stop.

        • Mike says:
          10 Dec10 December 07:13

          But he’s correct, a large part of the NHS just stopped giving care during the pandemic, not because they had been reassigned but to avoid people going to a hospital and becoming infected. It’s been a near 2 year holiday for a lot of NHS staff.

          Care workers were twice as likely to die of COVID as healthcare workers in the early months of the pandemic and those healthcare workers death rates were pretty much in line with other workers.

          The NHS is pretty terrible compared to other health systems in Europe and beyond and the sooner we accept that then the sooner it may improve. To be frank, a large number, not a majority, be a large number of the NHS staff are incompetent and in a fair world wouldn’t be inflicting their less than mediocre skills on the general public. Sound harsh, but completely true.

          The NHS failed miserably during the COVID epidemic, and it wasn’t due funding, it just isn’t fit for purpose.

          • Callum says:
            10 Dec10 December 07:27

            No he is absolutely NOT correct and it is INCREDIBLY insulting to be told that the 70 hour weeks spent wrapped up in painfully uncomfortable PPE surrounded by more sick patients than you can safely deal with as they slowly die around you in extreme distress “isn’t as bad as working in a food supply chain”.

            Utter rubbish, very few NHS staff just “stopped giving care”. I would love for you to describe who exactly these people who supposedly had a 2 year holiday are? Let alone how they make up a “large part” of the 1.3 million employees.

            So? Their argument wasn’t that care workers should be eligible for things like this – I’d whole heartedly support it if it was…

            The NHS is consistently ranked as one of the best healthcare systems on the planet, excuse me if I don’t just take the word of a stranger on the internet who doesn’t seem to have any idea what they’re talking about… I’d also love to hear how you have discovered that there is a problem with staff incompetence that goes beyond the standard you will inevitably find in an enormous organisation, or is this just a “feeling” you have?

            Which healthcare systems didn’t “fail miserably”? Given the main areas that are “failing” (the availability of staff and availability of equipment) can only be solved with increased budgets, it seems fairly clear that your claim it has nothing to do with funding is utter rubbish.

          • BJ says:
            10 Dec10 December 07:41

            @Callum, I said or implied no such thing in my comments here! You need to read and comment what I actually said, not misinterpret and then repeatedly misrepresent my words.

          • Callum says:
            10 Dec10 December 07:57

            BJ – Yes you absolutely did. You’re fed up with “NHS Heroes rubbish”, the “vast majority have done little or nothing to combat Covid”, the “real heroes are those in the food supply chain, who faced the greater risks and made the greater contribution”.

            At best you can call my posts a slight exaggeration. Unless you have a good explanation for spouting such utter, offensive drivel – goodbye.

          • Bazza says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:01

            This is why we love you patients so much. You’re so kind! And we do already know what you think of us when you visit the hospital for your life saving care.

          • ediflyer says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:23

            Oh yep – clearly nothing to do with inadequate funding and just incompetent staff… 🙄 Maybe have a look at reality before commenting… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59555468

          • DK says:
            10 Dec10 December 12:31

            @Mike WELL SAID!!!

            I don’t think I’ve encountered a more incompetent and self servicing institution than NHS.

      • Tazzy says:
        10 Dec10 December 07:41

        I am front line doctor in NHS and I find this quite offensive. We have faced huge risks. At present SA is reporting about 20% of front line health care professionals are positive for covid….. so yes there is a significant risk.

        • David says:
          10 Dec10 December 08:00

          Totally agree – try working for hours in a respirator and surgical gown and visor inches from peoples mouths – for a year before we were fully vaccinated.

        • BJ says:
          10 Dec10 December 08:06

          I am sorry for that, I did not mean to cause anybody any offense. I thought it was clear in my comment above and below that I recognised and drew a distinction between those in the NHS who faced increased health risks and those who were not so much affected. My point was simply that it is unfair to single out the NHS in general when there are many other groups of essential workers who have received comparatively little recognition and reward but who are also deserving IMO.

          • Amy C says:
            10 Dec10 December 08:19

            BJ, I completely understood what you meant. It was totally clear. Not sure why the others chose to misread it. Btw, I agree.

          • Ken says:
            10 Dec10 December 08:31

            Classical ‘whataboutery’ though isn’t it ?

            Just seems an excuse to get sly digs in at NHS staff, then act all innocent when anyone call you out.

          • BJ says:
            10 Dec10 December 08:31

            Thanks @Amy

          • bafan says:
            10 Dec10 December 08:31

            People just love to find cause to be offended so they can put their keyboard warrior cape on and go for it. I guess it gives them some joy in their sad lives.

          • Rhys says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:07

            To be fair BJ, if you re-read your comment it wasn’t as clear as you make it out to be 🙂

          • Mike says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:21

            The NHS is a religion and there’s no way you can convince the true believers. The NHS is far from world class, the surveys that produce this outcome depend on subjective metrics being chosen and how they are weighted. For example, is universalality as important as life expectancy? If life expectancy is an important metric then how much is that down to the health system and how much to the populations lifestyles (I’m looking at you Italy and Japan). The NHS is terrible, it was terrible during the pandemic, I know I tried to use it. Luckily I have private medical and as soon as the NHS stopped blocking the resources of the private sector I was able to be seen after nearly a year of daily agony (cheers NHS, I tried to be diagnosed before the lockdown started but you are incompetents).

            The interesting thing was until recently, the last few years, I believed that the NHS was an important thing, that it was pretty good and better than most of the alternatives. You know what rid me of the believe, using it, there’s some dedicated and great professionals there plus a load of dross. Until people are willing to criticise it and people willing to accept that criticism then the NHS will continue to fail.

          • jek says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:30

            So in the future think about what you have written before pressing the submit button. You basically (playing devil’s advocate here:) said that amazon workers (logistics) are heroes when nurses are not. That is an insult to my wife and all of her colleagues, many of them have left the profession with PTSD. Please show me anybody in food supply, retail and logistics industries with PTSD from COVID frontline work.

          • Bazza says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:53

            “those who were not so much affected” Who are these people? You want to say that Admin staff? Who are working Saturdays and Sundays for you! Who are working in central London for £20’000 who are unable to afford to join the pension scheme that you people repeatedly cream your pants about!

            A receptionist who meets every single patient? No risks?

          • Lady London says:
            10 Dec10 December 14:01

            BJ it was clear to me you made that distinction and I agree with your comments.

            Callum we know what you said about your role is true but there was no attack on this – quite the contrary.

        • Rob says:
          10 Dec10 December 08:38

          My brother is an NHS physio and has worked from home for 20 months doing physio sessions over Zoom …..

          • bazza says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:54

            There is always one bad apple

          • Rob says:
            10 Dec10 December 10:08

            Clearly it is not his choice to be doing this ….

          • BJ says:
            10 Dec10 December 15:24

            @Bazza, while you take offense that I draw a distinction in the most general of terms between those working in the health service who have and have not been exposed to significantly greater risk to their personal health from exposure to covid, you see fit for you to pass negative judgment on an individual NHS employee, and this despite it being very unlikely that you know him or his circumstances?

  • Nick G says:
    10 Dec10 December 06:13

    But not police or other blue light services though…

    • Dominic says:
      10 Dec10 December 06:25

      To be fair, NHS have had a tougher job than police and fire crews.

      It’s a health pandemic, not a crime or fire one.

      • Anna says:
        10 Dec10 December 08:16

        That’s not exactly true, Dominic, the police had a huge raft of new legislation to enforce with little notice, they weren’t generally prioritised for vaccinations (unlike NHS admin staff who had no contact with patients), yet were expected to continue to go into volatile, close-contact situations, and front line officers have been hugely stretched due to having to compensate for colleagues who were shielding or WFH. My OH has been putting in 10 – 14 hour shifts for the entire pandemic dealing with murders and other serious violent crime which hasn’t gone away during this time.

        • Gavin says:
          10 Dec10 December 08:49

          Police are extremely stretched and have had G7 and COP 26 to deal with. I’ve shared the BA link but not this HfP link with my NHS mates.

          • yorkieflyer says:
            10 Dec10 December 13:08

            Me too although I do agree that the new national religion in an otherwise largely agnostic society is our dear old NHS. Even the slightest criticism or suggestions of change lead to all hell breaking loose and what are irrefutably vested interests shouting every one down.
            It’s rare that anyone in public life even tries to suggest anything re the NHS any more due to its Holy Cow status. Michael Fabricant, to be clear I’m no fan, suggested the other week on Any Questions a charge to see the GP for example, to face the usual storm, despite this being accepted practice in many other civilised countries with high health care standards and largely state funded provision

          • BJ says:
            10 Dec10 December 15:56

            @Rhys, I believe my original comment was clear, and my later comment at 06:53 explicitly so.

            @Lady London, thank you for your support.

            @Others making comments regarding specific roles such as nurses, secretaries, GP etc. At no point did I refer to specific roles, I referred only to those who had faced greater exposure to covid. This varies greatly both between and within NHS roles in both location and time. There is some misunderstanding that I sought to apportion relative value to those working within the NHS and those working elsewhere such as carers, retail, police, logistics etc. I did not seek to give that impression either. Rather, I believe every job has value and that those in any job within or outside the NHS who have faced increased risk from covid should be recognised and valued as opposed to singling out the NHS as a whole. By reference to “Real Heroes” I meant both those workers within the NHS and any workers outside it who have been exposed to greater risk.

        • Dominic says:
          10 Dec10 December 09:29

          No, it hasn’t gone away, but murders happened before and they continue to happen. And we’ve seen from the Met Police this week that they only enforce COVID crimes if they happen to stumble across it at the time…! 😉

          I agree that everyone has been doing a great job, by the way; just there is a different between a frontline NHS worker in a COVID ward (and, yes, I know not all NHS workers apply there!), and a policeman attending a murder.

          • Aston100 says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:41

            “No, it hasn’t gone away, but murders happened before and they continue to happen. And we’ve seen from the Met Police this week that they only enforce COVID crimes if they happen to stumble across it at the time…! 😉”

            Hey Dominic, how comes GPs don’t want to see patients anymore? People were ill before and continue to get ill.

          • Rhys says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:45

            Come on Aston – you know as well as anyone else that it wasn’t the GPs who decided. All the coverage I’ve seen is of GPs saying how stupid the policy is.

            Let’s keep this discussion civil, please.

          • Lady London says:
            10 Dec10 December 14:05

            Sorry Rhys but the GP’s seem to have walked off the job refusing to see people. Unlike the dentists who got together as a profession working out protection standards so they could continue to deliver a service.

      • Aston100 says:
        10 Dec10 December 09:39

        Dominic, can you imagine an NHS IT Solutions Architect having a ‘tougher job’ than a policeman or fire fighter putting their lives at risk.

        • Dominic says:
          10 Dec10 December 10:53

          If you’d like to take a look at my comments in this thread, alongside the *very first comment in this article*, you might be able to get your head around my viewpoints. I clearly do not think an NHS IT Solutions Architect has a tougher job than a policeman.

    • BJ says:
      10 Dec10 December 06:53

      Anybody, anywhere in any job where they have faced a real and significant increased risk to their health while undertaking their job. Clearly there are potentially millions of them and they include many but not all NHS staff. Singling out NHS in general is a kick in the teeth to all those others.

      • Callum says:
        10 Dec10 December 06:56

        Instead of attempting to dictate who is and isn’t worthy of other people’s support, why don’t YOU give to the people you deem worthy?

        • James Vickers says:
          10 Dec10 December 07:11

          It’s fair to make the point that NHS are singled out usually, the real ones missing are carers -they’ve been working as usual right throughout the pandemic, often supporting people with COVID.

          • Polly says:
            11 Dec11 December 07:06

            Too right, and l think BJ has been referring also to these unsung heroes, and All the others who kept this country running.… Plus, many others who have dealt with covid cases, not necessarily in the ICU setting. I do agree that those within the ICU acute wards, wearing heavy PPE for almost 2 years deserve extra support. Including cleaners, very important members of ICU. Often called upon to help,with probing too. With no training.

            As someone mentioned, any have already left our profession, which totally defeats the purpose. We need those skills and experience, for the NHS to continue in it’s ongoing important work. It’s such a shame that many people suffering from serious illness, have died or are dying as a result of limited/no treatment or monitoring. These people are not being counted within the covid casualty numbers. They should be.

        • BJ says:
          10 Dec10 December 07:11

          I am not attempting to dictate anything. I am expressing my view, you and others can do the same if you wish or not. And since you suggested it, just for your info I have indeed given to those others and will continue to do so.

          • Blair says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:42

            Who amongst us actually donated Avios though? 😉 Woe betide anyone who asks me to give up my hard earned (bent-earned) loyalty points.

          • Polly says:
            11 Dec11 December 07:09

            See above, BJ. Most sensible people accept your comment as it’s meant to be. But only pointing out those actually within ICU or HDU, in full PPE garb for so long, definitely need extra recognition. That’s all am saying.

  • Mike says:
    10 Dec10 December 06:22

    Looks like only NHS England is included. Shame I’m a Scottish GP.

  • Sharka says:
    10 Dec10 December 06:24

    Go bang your pots and pans in a different way…a year after everyone else saw through that charade.

  • Olivia says:
    10 Dec10 December 06:51

    My mum has been working as a nurse on the ICU wards throughout the pandemic (her neuro ward got changed into critical care in Mar 2020) and never usually takes advantage of these NHS deals but this seems the exception she wants to get on board (pun) with… but doesn’t have a BA account as barely flies long haul. Can I apply on her behalf as I would use those avios as part of a trip for the two of us?

    • Peter K says:
      10 Dec10 December 06:56

      Open an account for her and then to pool avois you can create a household account.

      • Paul Pogba says:
        10 Dec10 December 09:28

        Or should could take the Avios and convert to Nectar so she could treat herself to something in Sainsbury or Argos?

  • Mike says:
    10 Dec10 December 06:57

    I think, looking at the T’s&C’s, that you have to work for NHS England. Shame that I work frontline for the NHS in Scotland.

    • Allan says:
      10 Dec10 December 08:04

      And nobody in Scotland has an nhs.net /nhs.uk address now anyway.

      • Andrew says:
        10 Dec10 December 08:58

        Not strictly true.

        There’s a lot of NHS England staff who live in Scotland and commute across the border. My parent’s neighbour works shifts in London every weekend. Train down Friday afternoon, works Friday, Saturday, Sunday night shifts stays in hospital accommodation, then back on the Monday morning.

        • Allan says:
          10 Dec10 December 09:26

          That’s hardly the norm

          • Andrew says:
            10 Dec10 December 10:11

            It’s very common. Especially people living in the borders working in NE & NW England.

            The NHS in London is a bit like the City – it’s full of Scots.

    • Rupert one says:
      10 Dec10 December 08:24

      Nor Wales…
      I might ask for my donation back.

    • Harry T says:
      10 Dec10 December 08:48

      London Airways! 😊

  • George Prodan says:
    10 Dec10 December 07:05

    When the plane lands will everyone start banging their empty cans of tonic together?

  • Geoggy says:
    10 Dec10 December 07:25

    Another day, another predictable string of anti NHS posts, backed up with very little actual facts.

    How times have changed.

    • Callum says:
      10 Dec10 December 07:38

      I now remember why I stopped posting on this site (and why I fled the UK the second I was granted a visa elsewhere) – maybe I’ll give it another year then try again!

      • Numpty says:
        10 Dec10 December 07:45

        +1

      • AJA says:
        10 Dec10 December 09:04

        @ Callum it is commendable that you stick up for the NHS so vociferously and it is wonderful that there is a chance for NHS employees to participate in this draw for 60k Avios.

        But, although on balance the NHS is wonderful, it is not without its faults. For instance, many non-urgent operations have been postponed while Covid treatment takes centre stage. This is right but at the same time very upsetting for those who suffer from those non-life threatening illnesses and are denied treatment. My OH is a retired oncologist who worked for the NHS for 38 years but is in urgent need of a knee replacement operation. Unfortunately one of the casualties of covid, the initial consultation was in Oct 2019 but subsequent NHS treatment has been suspended indefinitely. My OH’s condition has worsened to the point that walking up and down stairs is impossible and now relies on crutches to walk and is in constant pain. Fed up of no NHS treatment we have paid for a stair lift and now pay over £400 per month in private medical insurance and are now being treated privately King Edward VII hospital. Yes the one the royals use. We’re lucky we can afford to do this, not many people can.

        I know GPs are self-employed but they contract with the NHS to provide GP services. I’m not sure when you last saw your GP especially since you’ve ‘fled the UK’, but I last saw my GP in person in 2019. I have no idea what they’ve been doing for the last 2 years. Their staff, the practice nurse, etc are still visible but I’ve forgotten what my GP looks like, the rare time I speak it is via a telephone consultation. He could be in Barbados for all I know!. I got my flu jab from my GP surgery and I get constant texts reminding me to book my Covid booster but I don’t honestly know what my GP is doing other than planning to spend an unknown amount extending the surgery to provide more ‘services’. Reminds me of that BBC comedy W1A, I am convinced they have a Head of Better / Legacy and are planning to offer less for more.

        The point I believe BJ was making is that the NHS and its staff is one of a number of organisations that have done outstanding work but seems to be the one that gets singled out for praise while many others are not.

        • Bazza says:
          10 Dec10 December 10:54

          King Edward VII haha if you only knew who they outsource too!

        • Size-8-Portex says:
          10 Dec10 December 12:17

          NHS worker here.

          Don’t disagree with anything you’ve said.

          It is one of those situations that is very easy to make observations and criticise, but very difficult to actually correct.

          Healthcare is difficult to scale up and down rapidly. Capacity is largely dictated by the availability skilled staff, rather than physical space or equipment, which are finite and not quick to train.

          Even in the USA, with the antithesis of a healthcare system, hospitals have been overrun with emergency admissions and had to triage / cut back on elective capacity. I was listening to Doctor Radio on SXM in the USA last week and lots of their callers also hadn’t seen their family physician or had worsening chronic health problems over the last 2 years.

          Waiting lists are big and growing everywhere. People’s operations are not being cancelled for fun. We try to make it clear when we have on-the-day cancellations that it is not just some arbitrary decision, but that it is for their safety – we cannot put them at undue risk by proceeding without the staff / a safe place for post op care / etc. The opposite headline would be “Mum of 3 killed after routine operation by NHS care blunders”.

          And again, on the flipside, if in 2018 we’d had loads of excess capacity and staff sat around doing nothing ‘just in case’, there would be the opposite outroar about overspending and wastage.

        • Callum says:
          10 Dec10 December 20:31

          When have I ever said it’s without fault? The biggest (legitimate) critics of the NHS are often it’s staff – I take issue with the insults, lies and ignorance, not with criticism.

          I hardly see how that could be a valid criticism. Is there a health system in the world that hasn’t had to scrap and postpone non urgent procedures? Though this was of course exacerbated by decades of chronic underfunding – NHS bosses aren’t magicians, they can’t just magic up new operating theatres and surgeons to provide these treatments.

          I saw my GP in July after half a year of stress caused me to develop physical symptoms. As previous A&E staff however I’ve seen first hand the result in GP access difficulties and can assure you it frustrates us much more than you! It’s categorically false to describe them as doing nothing though.

          It’s the point he and his disciples keep insisting he was making, but it was absolutely not the point he made. He could have very easily said that others should be celebrated too without disparaging NHS staff, describing it as “NHS Heroes rubbish” and then calling the logistics staff “the real Heroes”.

          In fact, others have made that point and I’ve not argued against it at all – I have no issue with it whatsoever and, back when I was NHS staff, didn’t believe I had a special right to these discounts (ditto with all my colleagues). You can bring others up without attacking and bringing down NHS staff.

        • Polly says:
          11 Dec11 December 07:21

          AJA
          So,sorry to hear about your OH ortho,issue. People we know are just paying for the op privately as opposed to taking out a PHI at 400 pm. That is very steep. I would have advised you looked around for a package. Unless you both are covered and envisage further health problems develop, which happen of course. But for anything critical, the hospital open and admitting. Hope he gets better soon. What a way to treat a former colleague. My SIL, a GP, had same issue in Bristol. 3 bunged knee replacements….but doing well now.

          And thank him for his long service to oncology. It’s a tough one.

      • Tariq says:
        11 Dec11 December 10:56

        We really wish you would leave with your angry hysterics 🤣

    • Paul Pogba says:
      10 Dec10 December 07:43

      An issue is that many in the NHS are very well paid and didn’t face any additional risk from continuing to work than any one else. If the spoils of this promotion were restricted to staff under a certain salary threshold and/or on the front line I’m sure everyone would be sympathetic.

      A IT consultant on +£100k is rewarded reasonably and can afford their own holidays, a diversity and inclusion grifter that adds nothing is already taking too much. However, a nurse on ~£30k almost certainly deserves a treat.

      • Callum says:
        10 Dec10 December 07:52

        Before I escaped the UK, I was on the lowest pay band possible within the NHS. Not one single co-worker ever expressed a single complaint about non-medical or highly-paid staff sharing these rewards (probably because we also couldn’t do what we do anywhere near as well without them…), so who exactly do you think you’re helping by “having an issue” with things like this?

        • Paul Pogba says:
          10 Dec10 December 08:43

          Right, but those same people that make things work in the background within the NHS are no different from the people quietly stacking shelves at Tesco, emptying bins or making sure our broadband functions (etc, etc). Why is an administrator in the NHS more worthy than one working for a logistics firm? Why is an IT nerd at my local constabulary less worthy than one at an NHS trust? Or more to the point, why is a GP on £100k a better candidate for a freebie than a low paid care home worker? Its the blanket assumption that everyone in the NHS deserves a little extra while everyone else that’s contributed to getting us through this can be ignored.

          I’m going to add this to the list of interactions I have with the NHS (albeit former) that make me wish the whole thing was privatised.

          • Rob says:
            10 Dec10 December 08:45

            A GP wouldn’t have an NHS email address?

          • Paul Pogba says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:02

            My old CCG in Herts and one a friend works at in the South West both use nhs.net email addresses which seem to be valid for this competition.

          • ediflyer says:
            10 Dec10 December 09:25

            @Rob – yes they would have an NHS email address – although they are technically independent contractors they have access to NHS IT system as they need to exchange confidential patient information securely.

          • bazza says:
            10 Dec10 December 10:57

            “administrator in the NHS” because they will meet every single type of patient that enter the NHS

          • victairinternational says:
            10 Dec10 December 16:13

            Most GP practices have an NHS.net email address at a practice wide level, unlikely for individual GPs. NHS net is encrypted for use of patient sensitive info, increasingly NHS organisations are exclusively using NHS net in place of individual trust specific nhs.uk addresses.

          • Callum says:
            10 Dec10 December 20:49

            Probably because many people value health over supply of goods? You clearly don’t, so just don’t donate to them instead of getting angry that other people like them. As I keep saying, I have zero objection to others getting support and zero expectation that NHS workers should get it – I’m merely disgusted at the treatment my former colleagues are receiving. I was only there for a year, missing the first wave, and have never had such a horrific experience in all my life – including my bout of extreme depression and suicidal feelings after losing my mum as a teenager. I’m therefore not remotely surprised that I saw colleagues breaking down in tears on a daily basis. It’s beyond infuriating to see smug *****s like BJ and yourself making comments like “you’re not even that much at risk” and “stop this NHS hero rubbish, won’t someone think of the poor logistics workers – our real Heroes!”.

            They’re not a better candidate – hence why I’ve never said they are. I’d love carers to be included in this (or even have their own, bigger scheme).

            I hope you just think you’re making a smug point, but it’s not surprising someone like yourself would think an argument with a (self-professed – you don’t know me!) low-level former NHS employee is a valid point for destroying it. Especially as I would have been there regardless, whether it was private or not!

      • Alan says:
        10 Dec10 December 08:24

        What “IT consultant” is getting 100k on the NHS? In the private sector or working for an outsourced supplier, sure, but not working in the NHS. A medical consultant (with 20+ years of training since leaving school) isn’t on 100k either, that’s only by their 10th year as a consultant!

      • Ken says:
        10 Dec10 December 08:39

        Most of the well paid doctors and surgeons will have undergone a huge amount of education and training. Can’t really become a surgeon in less than about 8 years post a 5 year degree. And even making it as a consultant doesn’t absolve you from being on call some weekends.

        • Harry T says:
          10 Dec10 December 08:51

          To become a surgeon, it normally takes five years of Med school, two years of foundation training, and at least eight years of specialty training (plus often a post CCT fellowship). The pay is good compared to being a checkout worker but not compared to professions that demand a similar amount of training and education. The pay for doctors and nurses has been eroded in real terms for decades.

    • Dominic says:
      10 Dec10 December 07:51

      To be fair, I see very few posts that could be considered anti-NHS ,unless one counts posts from the same individuals.

      • Geoggy says:
        10 Dec10 December 07:56

        Apologies if that’s aimed at me. I didn’t mean this site per se – just the general online mood music. Every NHS discount on hotukdeals is full of this rubbish. Twitter the same. Unless you are in it, regardless of your grade or your vocation, you are doing an incredible job and I worry for all of you with this new variant. It’s not going to be good.

        • Dominic says:
          10 Dec10 December 09:30

          It’s a fair point (and this thread has taken a turn, in any case!).

          It’s largely just jealousy 🙂

          • Polly says:
            11 Dec11 December 07:31

            Don’t think anyone could be jealous of current NHS working conditions.
            And most GPs don’t earn 100K, either.

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