As well as continuing to do a heroic job delivering for our customers, our colleagues have been coming up with more ideas for how we can support the people leading the fight against Covid-19 in the NHS. It’s been truly humbling to read the suggestions that have been pouring in from staff and customers alike with ideas for how we can help those on the NHS frontline. Colleagues have been supporting those on the frontline by providing food donations to local hospitals, and we’ve been helping with initiatives such as special hours for NHS and emergency-service workers.
So we’ve been working out how we can help and been talking to the NHS. And we’ve focused on what we do best – providing M&S food and clothes – in the hope we can make it just a little easier for our hard-working NHS teams to keep doing what they do best: looking after us all and saving lives.
We really are all in this together, and I’m delighted we’ve been able to turn some of those ideas into action. Here are just some of the things we’re doing and a few words from the people at M&S who are making them happen.
We’re donating
Clothing
Thousands of specially branded “We are the NHS” T-shirts to form part of
the uniform pack for the NHS Nightingale frontline team.
Free clothing care packs containing a T-shirt, jumper, joggers, knickers or
boxers and socks for patients discharged from NHS Nightingale London.
Over 4,000 pyjamas to be used as scrubs to NHS Derbyshire, located close
to our Castle Donington distribution centre.
Food
We’ll deliver nearly 5,000 prepared meals, sandwiches and treats to NHS
workers at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and Great Ormond Street
Hospital every week for the next two months.
NHS Nightingale T-shirts
The NHS Nightingale
T-shirts being printed in Leeds
