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.

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.

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.

Please share this article ….

Even if you are not an NHS employee yourself, you are likely to know someone who is. Please send them a link to this article or share it via social media so that as many people as possible can benefit.

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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British Airways and Avios

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Mags says:

10 Dec10 December 08:48

Last year I shared the NHS appeal for points widely across social media. As an NHS employee in Northern Ireland I would like to know why my colleagues here & in Scotland & Wales have not been deemed worthy of the chance to be rewarded for our efforts during the ongoing pandemic by entering the draw.
- Dominic says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 09:26
  
  A) Because a *private* business has the choice to *voluntarily* give whomever it wishes freebies.
  B) I’m assuming there is some kind of logic (tax, perhaps?)
  - ediflyer says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 09:31
    
    A) sure although they do brand themselves as a ‘national flag carrier’ so do have a bit more of a need to think more widely – after all Morrison’s can manage it (although in fairness their IT is much better than BA’s!)
    B) corporation tax is a reserved matter so can’t see any benefit there
- Paul Pogba says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 09:33
  
  Is it worth emailing thankyouappeal@avios.com to ask why hscni.net and nhsinform.scot (or whatevers used in those nations) could be added to the list of eligible email addresses?
- Hereforthepoints says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 12:26
  
  I agree!
- John says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 17:15
  
  I have an wales.nhs.uk email and work in Wales. You have different in NI i.e. not a *.nhs.uk?
Bazza says:

10 Dec10 December 08:57

There is worse than that. Hillingdon Hospital have just employed a wildlife ranger! Band 7.
- Amy C says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 08:58
  
  This I have to know more about?!!!!
Chris says:

10 Dec10 December 09:11

My waste products were heating rapidly just reading the headline. To then find out it’s not restricted to ICU or A&E staff but anyone with an nhs email address sent said waste products into vapourisation!
- Mike says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 18:13
  
  Chris – I think you might need to see a nhs employee regarding the condition effecting your waste products
John Ritchie says:

10 Dec10 December 09:20

British Airways have made a very generous offer to NHS employees, and as someone working for NHS Scotland in the pandemic response I’m very disappointed that they have excluded non NHS England workers. Not really a national carrier if excluding three nations from offers.
- DJC says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 09:25
  
  NHS Scotland NI and Wales received a £500 Covid bonus which was not replicated in England as far as I am aware.
  - ediflyer says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 09:32
    
    They weren’t from BA though – plus higher taxes in Scotland and higher NI (thanks to differing cut-offs for higher rate income tax) makes it more like £250…
    - WillPS says:
      
      10 Dec10 December 12:01
      
      You’ve given away your privilege son.
- Andrew says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 09:27
  
  Perhaps, the SNP-Green alliance in Holyrood refused permission for BA to engage with their employees as a consequence of the Climate Emergency?
  
  You should really do a FOI request to Holyrood to check.
- Aston100 says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 09:33
  
  Do you mean London Airways?
  - Mikeact says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 11:02
    
    How many more times..stupid comment.
Dilbert says:

10 Dec10 December 09:24

Jeez, reading some of these comments is depressing for a Friday Morning. All because something nice has been offered to a group of key workers. The saying ‘no good deed goes unpunished’ comes to mind.
- Rob says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 09:28
  
  Worth remembering and giving credit for the fact that 210 million of these points (£1.7m if all turned to Nectar) were donated directly by IAG who are not exactly flush with cash themselves.
- Aston100 says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 09:35
  
  This group of ‘key workers’ is over 1m strong.
  You can’t seriously think that all 1m+ of them are in roles where they directly took on additional risks.
  
  Would a finance manager at a hospital be any more a key worker facing risks than say a fireman?
  - Andrew says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 09:45
    
    If you want to fix it for future pandemics, then it’s time to reorganise local government.
    
    It’s easy when you have a straightforward NHS email address. Maybe if there we had a single “Fire England” organisation large companies would be able to offer a single offer to everyone on .fire.uk email addresses?
    
    At the moment, they’d have to load up 333 different local authority domains for England alone – and who want’s their snouts in the trough Councillors to win?
  - Geoggy says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 10:00
    
    Maybe they were, er, redeployed? Just an idea.
    - Roger W says:
      
      10 Dec10 December 15:59
      
      I have claimed although in general practice. However I feel it should be for only front line staff, be they doctors, nurses, paramedics or porters.
      
      I worked 25 years in A&E and feel sorry for my ex-colleagues. A friend continued to work in A&E whilst her hospital manager partner worked from home. He received his covid jab before her and he too can apply for this offer. Is this right?
      
      Last time I looked BA had removed the discounts from Blue Light.
Tracey says:

10 Dec10 December 09:27

No one employed at my vaccine centre has an NHS email address, unless they were already working in the NHS.
Sandra says:

10 Dec10 December 10:25

From our experience recently I would hazard a guess that Scotland, at least, isn’t included because the NATIONAL health service isn’t national any more, it is totally disjointed. Our daughter home from uni in Scotland was advised by 111 to go to A & E last week in England, she saw a triage nurse quickly & had some tests including bloods. 5 hours later (around 2315pm) she felt much better but still hadn’t had her blood results when it was announced that the wait to see a doctor was now 8 hours. She then decided it was pointless waiting & asked a nurse about her results as she wanted to leave. She was told if she felt ok she could leave but the blood results weren’t available & to get her (Scottish) GP to call next day as they couldn’t be sent to the GP via the NHS system because the GP is in Scotland. Next morning she called & asked her GP to find out the results, the GP said they couldn’t as they can’t access the English NHS system. So she called A & E, they couldn’t give them to her for ‘security reasons’ & gave her a out of hours GP number to call which she did, they said she wasn’t in their area so they couldn’t give them to her either & told her to call 111 who then arranged a call back with a 111 GP who rang back & said they couldn’t access them either! She has still not got her results but has been well since & we are assuming (perhaps wrongly) that if it was anything really serious A & E would have contacted by now about her blood results & she will see her Scottish GP in a couple of weeks when she is back there. Whilst I make no comment on the rights/wrongs of the Avios offer to the NHS, from underfunding, waste, incompetence, whatever, the whole NHS system is a total shambles & with no proper pandemic/national emergency plan in place (which is the fault of govt./senior management not those actually on the ground working in A & E etc, most of whom are trying to do their best in difficult circumstances), deployment of frontline staff to cope with covid has just sent it to the edge of the abyss!
- Clarence says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 12:28
  
  Same problem for our son. He was working in Birmingham and had to got to A and E with a heart issue only to be told sorry we can’t access your records in Northern Ireland, best thing to do is gat back there asap. He managed to get a flight at short notice to Belfast and straight to the hospital. He is ok now but who knows what could have happened.
- Andrew says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 14:49
  
  The two NHS systems have *never* been integrated. Even the NHS numbering system is completely different.
  
  It was your Daughter’s lifestyle choice not to wait to see the Dr when she was visiting a different country.
  - Sandra says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 17:00
    
    Andrew, I appreciate it was her choice not to wait another 8 hours but I just find it ridiculous that we are supposedly still, until/unless Scotland get independence, the UNITED KINGDOM and, integrated or not, I would expect there to be some sort of system in place to deal with this type of thing without going around in circles and wasting a lot of peoples time if someone from any of the home nations takes ill whilst away from their normal place of residence – it must happen reasonably often I imagine. It’s not like she’s actually overseas & needs insurance or a EHIC for treatment!
Mike says:

10 Dec10 December 10:48

Tens of thousands of undiagnosed cancers during lockdown, the effects from that will go on for decades. Plus, what do they want over and over? More lockdown! I wouldn’t give this lot a single mile.

The clapping didn’t last very long.
- Qrfan says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 11:03
  
  And that’s the fault of the grunts on the shop floor? Grow up.
- Mikeact says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 11:07
  
  You mean we should still be clapping..today ?
  - Mike says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 11:20
    
    A number of NHS trusts have declared a “climate emergency”, you know, those diversity and inclusion and climate “experts” paid a total of millions from public funds?
    
    I fully expect them to send out a memo advising staff to donate the Avios to climate offset schemes.
    
    Clap to the sky
- Comrade Chag says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 11:17
  
  Oh poor, Mike. This is what trauma does when you are a kid. Get better Mike!
- Callum says:
  
  11 Dec11 December 09:48
  
  Sure. It was the lockdown that caused the cancers to go undiagnosed – the hospital wards being jammed full of Covid patients had nothing to do with it…
  
  This is so incomprehensible that I’m not convinced I haven’t fallen for a parody!?
  - Mike says:
    
    12 Dec12 December 11:19
    
    Yet, the wards were never jammed with COVID patients. Hence the Nightingale hospitals were not used. May be the only person who seems to be suffering from an ability to comprehend is you.
    - jek says:
      
      12 Dec12 December 15:08
      
      The wards were jammed, lots of normal wards converted to COVID wards and spare space also converted to new COVID wards. The Nightingale Hospitals were not used as there was no staff – if a hospital wanted to move a patient to a Nightingale, it would have to send the nurses and equipment with the patient. The Nightingales were just a PR stunt.