NHS workers can get free drinks from Starbucks TODAY as the coffee giant offers ‘an early holiday thank you’
Starbucks is offering free drinks to NHS staff today, in an attempt to “say festive thanks in advance” for the third year running.
Healthcare workers across the UK will be able to have a Tall drink if they show their employment ID card.
It comes following the coffee chain’s tradition of honoring key workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We hope this small gesture gives all NHS workers the chance to take a moment to enjoy this festive period and show our great appreciation for the NHS for all they do throughout the year,” said Alex Rayner, General Manager from Starbucks in the UK.
Starbucks is offering free drinks to NHS staff today, in an attempt to “say festive thanks in advance” for the third year running.
The coffee giant also has more on the horizon to come from its partnership with NHS Charities.
Grateful staff shared snapshots of their free hot drinks on social media and spread the word to other workers.
‘Thank you @NHSCharities and @StarbucksUK for my free NHS drink,’ wrote one nurse, sharing a photo of her Gingerbread Latte.
Another St George’s Trust worker wrote: ‘Thank you @StarbucksUK for my free coffee this morning. If you don’t have yours yet, just head to your local Starbucks with your #NHS ID – today only!
Grateful staff shared snapshots of their free hot drinks on social media and spread the word to other workers.
“Thank you Starbucks for the free coffee, much needed after a morning of meetings and training,” wrote a third appreciative caffeine fanatic.
Starbucks in December 2020 also gave frontline workers free tall filter coffee as a “thank you” for the hard work they have put in that year.
The chain has a long history of supporting the NHS, with its Covid-19 response including volunteer activities and donations from staff, as well as the Blue Light Card offering a 10 per cent discount to NHS staff and other frontline workers. since 2018.
Starbucks has also given out 450,000 free drinks from cafeterias and food service donations over the course of the pandemic and has given away more than 500,000 prepackaged food parcels including soft drinks, coffee, cakes and cookies donated during lockdown to NHS staff, organisations. charities and food banks.
The kind gesture comes as GPs are urging parents who are concerned their child may have strep A to think twice before making appointments, MailOnline revealed.
A surgery in Oxfordshire has warned it is “in danger of being overwhelmed” amid the continued rise in children falling ill with seasonal viruses and insects.
Now he’s guiding concerned parents to an online advice page that tries to calm mounting fears and ease the pressure by listing the key signs that youngsters could be seriously ill and need immediate care.
A similar panic has been seen across the country in A&E units in distress and NHS 111 call centres, which have been inundated with the ‘well concerned’.
Staff warned that EDs had become a “dangerous place” due to the “large number of people” seeking reassurance and seriously ill cases could be overlooked.
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