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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John T says:

10 Dec10 December 11:11

Goodness, what an unpleasant group of people the H4P readers are today.

I don’t know why BA bothered to do anything nice for anyone if this is the response they get.
- Mike says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 11:18
  
  NHS staff are never happy. The solution is always more money, meanwhile the UK has one of the worst cancer survival rates in Europe, I dread to think how bad it must be now!
  - Rhys says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 11:20
    
    If you saw how overworked NHS staff are you’d be asking for more money too.
    
    Some trusts/departments don’t even provide their staff with free tea or coffee for goodness’ sake!
    - John says:
      
      10 Dec10 December 12:16
      
      I suppose if NHS staff, especially those who come into contact with patients, were well-compensated *and* the NHS did not rely on their goodwill just to function on a day-to-day basis – then organisations such as Avios Group wouldn’t feel the need to “reward” NHS staff beyond what they were already getting.
      
      When I worked for the NHS, my trust deducted £11 a month from my payslip for tea and coffee! (It was voluntary, and preventing those who opted out of contributing from using the facilities was unenforceable.)
    - DK says:
      
      10 Dec10 December 13:47
      
      @Rhys there is a HUGE difference between overworked and underpaid hospital doctors and nurses with lazy and overpaid GPs and the thousands of incompetent admins and contractors. The whole institution is rotten to the core with one of the worst outcomes in healthcare across the globe.
      - Rhys says:
        
        10 Dec10 December 13:53
        
        The GPs I know certainly aren’t lazy, in fact one of them is considering early retirement due to the stress of the past 2 years.
      - Bazza says:
        
        10 Dec10 December 14:13
        
        ” thousands of incompetent admins” Make sure you tell them when you next speak to one of them won’t you!
        
        No wonder no one wants to work there with patients like you to abuse them in their workplace everyday!
- Amy says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 11:21
  
  Completely agree.
  - DK says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 16:45
    
    @Rhys yea but you don’t really know GPs from any other countries to benchmark, do you? I happen to know.. Professionals across all walks of life are overstressed and want to retire early. The difference is GPs in the UK are massively overpaid for what they offer both in time and in knowledge. Hospital doctors are the true heros not GPs.
Mark Potts says:

10 Dec10 December 13:36

I volunteer with my local ambulance service, so I am on the front line responding to emergencies and dealing with patients (including covid patients) whenever I am on duty. Volunteers do not get paid and do not have NHS email addresses, but you know what I don’t mind.

The impact on the frontline workers over the past 2 years has been significant. The drain on their mental health and physical exhaustion has been consistent.

Anyone (Organisation or individual) who can do something to help them get a short break away from that stress deserves huge credit. I am saddened to see some of the comments on this article, I for one celebrate this article and thank you @rob for highlighting it, I will certainly be sharing it with my frontline colleagues.
- Mike says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 16:42
  
  Mark – thank you for your service, much appreciated
- Mike says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 18:16
  
  Mark – I should have said I am nice Mike not the chap making idiotic post’s earlier
  - Mike says:
    
    11 Dec11 December 19:10
    
    Hi Mike, again whilst people like you worship the NHS it will never improve, so you are the problem. There’s people in these threads who have literally forfeited their lives or had years of pain due to the incompetence of the NHS. I want a health service that works, this doesn’t.
dougzz99 says:

10 Dec10 December 13:51

If I was involved in marketing at a company I think I’d stay well away from things like this, as in NHS or Blue Light or whatever. It seems to generate at least as much negativity as it does positivity and it feels like a no win for BA/Avios. I’m sure now someone can explain why it still has marketing benefit.
mutley says:

10 Dec10 December 15:59

What is the matter with some folk on here ?

I say bravo to BA for their generous donation, well done to those that donated, and a massive thank you to all NHS workers irrespective of what they do, whether front line or not. As well as to the Police and ambulance service who do a sterling job in often difficult and dangerous circumstances.
victairinternational says:

10 Dec10 December 16:09

As an NHS employee, I have an NHS net email address. I work in finance and have been home based since last March. It has been an extremely busy year on this side too but the spirit of this campaign is definitely for my frontline colleagues who have worked tirelessly and selflessly in the face of danger. As exciting as the thought of an extra 60k Avios is, I’ll sit out this one and leave it to the HCAs, nurses, doctors, porters, receptionists etc. A thoroughly deserved offer for my hard working colleagues…
Lula says:

10 Dec10 December 16:46

It’s great to see all these people qualified to comment on the competence of others, while having no insight at all into the circumstances in which those they judge are working. I can’t help but think it’s really because you don’t like someone else getting a few avios for free, when you’ve had to invest time applying for credit cards and chasing up bonuses on supplementary cards. Your hard work should be rewarded too!
Mike says:

10 Dec10 December 17:07

@Rob. Scottish NHS workers have an nhs.scot email address, which isn’t eligible for the scheme. I wouldn’t want to get into a worthiness competition with anyone; there will always be plenty of folk more worthy than me. I can only speak for myself and my GP surgery. We have never worked harder. I retired on 1.3.20 and came back to work later that month. As soon as the legislation changed to allow me to work more than 16 hours a week. I’ve been seeing people face to face since the start, with inadequate PPE and, until a year ago, unvaccinated. Last month, I was able to reduce my hours from 70 to 60 a week. I often marvel, when patients seeing me face to face in my consulting room ask, “When are you starting seeing patients face to face again?” The propaganda has clearly worked.
- Damian Smith says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 18:54
  
  I emailed the organiser to see why Scotland not included and received this helpful reply!
  
  The reason the initiative is currently for England only is that we contacted all UK organisations when this initiative was launched last year and unfortunately Scotland and Wales were unable to confirm their participation. We therefore allocated the Awards to England and Northern Ireland, proportionally to the work force. We have successfully allocated the prizes in Northern Ireland via Trusts nominations and the portion left to distribute is part of the NHS England allocation. However, we would be delighted to share the Avios with other regions which is why I have asked NHS England if they are happy for us to share some of their allocation, to which they have now agreed.
  
  We are in conversation with Wales and Scotland to make sure they are now happy to open this up and can give us guidance on email verification.
  
  Please, do enter the draw with your work address, we’ll do our best to be able to confirm the extension to all the UK as soon as possible.
  - kitten says:
    
    11 Dec11 December 01:41
    
    Wondering if Scotland and Wales thought the offer was spam so did not respond..
  - kitten says:
    
    11 Dec11 December 01:41
    
    Wondering if Scotland and Wales thought the offer was spam so did not respond..
- DK says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 21:32
  
  Many of us work 60 and 70 hours per week yet we don’t have £300k salaries. Do you know what’s the average salary of a hospital consultant? And they offer real value. Instead, GPs don’t even know more than many of their patients do. I honestly think you could disappear one day and life expectancy will stay the same. Evidently many countries abroad offer direct access to specialists and consultants and have better outcomes.
  - Harry T says:
    
    12 Dec12 December 06:47
    
    The only people on 300k salaries in the NHS are the managers 😂
Rob says:

10 Dec10 December 19:24

Now in the media – https://www.thenational.scot/news/19776742.british-airways-panned-contest-thank-nhs-staff-opens-england/

For clarity, we did not ‘place’ the story. We do sometimes, but not today.
- His Holyness says:
  
  10 Dec10 December 19:31
  
  That’s a scummy left-wing nationalist rag, they won’t be happy unless Stalin comes back and brave Scotland gets independence from the terrible Englanders all paid for by totally clean and climate friendly wind power…
  
  So of course they hate BA, they hate the very word “British”
  - Rob says:
    
    10 Dec10 December 19:42
    
    It’s a good story and may get picked up elsewhere though.