Why choose Massage Minutes to say thanks?
Over the years, much has been said of NHS staff and their role as ambassadors for health, but staff have come under fire for not practising what they preach when it comes to healthy living, namely maintaining a healthy weight. This is even more relevant today with the focus on tackling rising obesity and the subsequent obesity crisis linked to a rise in diabetes and many other health conditions.
Staff love the appreciation that a card demonstrates. Knowing we have made a difference makes it all worthwhile. Yet long shifts and stress make the readily available chocolates hard to resist.
What if we could offer something other than chocolate for staff? Something that promotes health and self-care and has the potential to reduces staff stress and contributes to making staff feel valued and supported in the workplace?
Now, patients and relatives can consider a healthy alternative to chocolate: Massage Minutes CIC. A community Interest Company where profit is used to provide more support treatments on site.
Gift vouchers allows staff to receive a 10-minute head, neck and shoulder massage. At a minimum providing a moment to be pampered but potentially providing mental and physical wellbeing a welcome boost.
The many benefits of massage are well documented, including enhancing relaxation and concentration and focus, reducing muscle tension and stress, improving sleep, relieving emotional stress and anxiety, boosting the immune system and reducing blood pressure and supporting hormonal function. This service is about redirecting and modernising goodwill. All funds raised are used to support the provision of massages for staff as a way of saying thank you for the care they provide.
A pilot study of 250 massages received 100% positive feedback from recipients. This reinforces what we have all known all along, that prevention really is better than cure. We all deserve a treat now and again, but it doesn’t always have to be a sweet one. Let’s empower the NHS for example to heed the message of prevention from its very core – its wonderful staff. Vouchers are available from www.massageminutes.com and are delivered to the business or event and the bus would allow for flexibility to deliver to an area without disruption or requiring a designated space.