NHS workers can get free Starbucks drinks TODAY as coffee giant offers ‘an early festive thank you’
- Starbucks is today offering free drinks for NHS staff across the United Kingdom
- Healthcare service employees can show their work ID in exchange for a brew
- The festive thank you gesture comes amid growing Strep A worries in the UK
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Starbucks is today offering free drinks to NHS staff, in a bid to ‘to say an early festive thank you’ for the third year in a row.
Health service workers across the UK will be able to grab a Tall beverage if they show their job ID card.
It comes following the coffee chain’s tradition of honouring key workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
‘We hope this small gesture gives all NHS workers the opportunity to take a moment to enjoy this festive period and demonstrates our huge appreciation of the NHS for all that they do, all year round,’ Starbucks UK General Manager Alex Rayner said.
Starbucks is today offering free drinks to NHS staff, in a bid to ‘to say an early festive thank you’ for the third year in a row
The coffee giant also has more on the horizon to come from its partnership with NHS Charities together.
Grateful staff have shared snaps of their free hot drinks on social media, and spreading the word to other workers.
‘Thank you @NHSCharities and @StarbucksUK for my free NHS drink,’ one nurse penned, sharing a photo of their Gingerbread Latte.
Another St George’s Trust worker wrote: ‘Thank you @StarbucksUK for my free coffee this morning. If you haven’t got yours yet, just head to your local Starbucks with your #NHS ID – today only!’
Grateful staff have shared snaps of their free hot drinks on social media, and spreading the word to other workers
‘Thanks Starbucks for the free coffee, much needed after a morning of meetings and training,’ a third, grateful caffeine fan penned.
Starbucks in December 2020 also gave frontline workers free tall filter coffee as a ‘thank you’ for the hard work they’ve done that year.
The chain has a long history of supporting the NHS, with its Covid-19 response including staff volunteering activities and donations as well as Blue Light Card offering 10 per cent off to NHS staff and other frontline workers since 2018.
Starbucks has also given 450,000 free drinks from café’s and food service donations over the course of the pandemic and gifted more than 500,000 packaged food parcels including soft drink, coffee, cakes and biscuits donated throughout lockdown to NHS staff, charities and foodbanks.
The kind gesture comes as GP practices are begging parents who are worried their child may have Strep A to think twice before demanding appointments, MailOnline has revealed.
One surgery in Oxfordshire warned it is ‘in danger of being overwhelmed’ amid the ongoing surge in children falling ill with seasonal viruses and bugs.
It is now guiding concerned parents to an online advice page that attempts to calm growing fears and ease pressures by listing key signs youngsters could be seriously ill and need to be seen immediately.
Similar panic unfolding across the nation has been seen in struggling A&E units and NHS 111 call centres, which have been swamped by the ‘worried well’.
Staff warned casualty units had become a ‘dangerous place’ due to ‘huge numbers’ seeking reassurance and that seriously ill cases could be missed.
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