Been hearing from friends about some savage shifts and difficult working environments in hospitals that, sadly, are likely to get harder.
These guys are awesome, the NHS is awesome. Can we help keep them going?
Huel RTDs and bars would be a superb addition to their days, a friendly challenge to you @Julian, can you find a way to help our healthcare workers? 
I love this idea. Logistically itâs probably impossible, at least in the near future. Iâm sure Huel had a plan to scale up their production, but over the next few years, not the next few weeks.
Huel could (maybe) increase their incoming raw materials by 10x, but they canât increase their output by 10x. Even if they immediately hired 10x more staff, they donât have the equipment.
Itâs like how people expect the supermarkets to smoothly switch to home deliveries. Unless we all pray to the God of Refrigerated Vans, they simply canât.
Hopefully there are things Huel can do, and theyâre doing it. I really hope so. And there are things all of us can do too, especially if we have our own transport and are not particularly vulnerable to the virus.
NHS Volunteer Responders has been set up to support the NHS during the COVID-19 outbreak. To do this we need an âarmyâ of volunteers who can support the 1.5m people in England who are at most risk from the virus to stay well. Our doctors, nurses and other professionals will be able to refer people in to NHS Volunteer Responders and be confident that they have been matched with a reliable, named volunteer.
Aye potentially, to be honest Iâm not sure what my suggestion would even look like, but even just some Huel for one hospital could be a big help going off what NHS friends have said.
Yes I agree, and I donât want to be overly pessimistic. If Huel can support their local hospital that would be amazing.
Or have a crowdfunder for your local hospital, itâs a lot of work to get these campaigns going.
@David thanks for link for volunteers - registered!
Hmm. Given that getting ready-to-eat/drink Huel products out to every NHS site in the country within a few days is likely to be impossible logistically and in terms of stock, how about a more long-term approach?
Extend the current âMilitary Personnel and Students onlyâ discount to include NHS workers. Permanently.
We are looking for ways to help.
We did speak to the local hospital, they werenât interested.
So we are going to look at other ways. Please remember we are very short of stock (and out of stock of some products), our team is currently struggle to keep up with demand (manufacturing, logistics, etc.) our customer service team is struggling to keep up. There is no online system to valid NHS staff unlike students and military. And finally in total over the last 4.5 years we havenât made a profit overall.
I will get back to you once we have more info.
Thanks for all you and your team are doing, @Julian Much appreciated x
That really surprises me, but kudos for trying.
Wasnât meant to add to the pressure youâre under, if youâve tried already thatâs my friendly challenge met 
A quick update. Our local hospital got back to us, we now sending them some bars.
I will post more news when other initiatives are agreed.
Thanks for trying, every little helps at the moment!
If you were interested and able to extending your discount to the NHS and emergency services, the system they use is the Blue Light Card which can be used for online or in store discounts (similar to the Defence Discount Card used by the military).
Thanks for considering this @Julian, however as a frontline NHS doctor in A&E, I want to say that we actually donât need free or discounted stuff. We have job security and are lucky enough to be able to leave our homes each day to go to work. There is enough food in shops. Itâs nice when companies can offer free/discounted stuff, and none of us feel too bad taking a free coffee from high street stores who have dodged taxes for decades. But not from a relatively new company with a small team of dedicated folk mostly working from home and still trying to keep everything running for customers. We would rather you get through this and come out the other side as best you can (Huel has made a huge different to my working life!) without the additional struggle of trying to offer something that is largely impossible.
Just keep making good stuff, and keep your staff safe. Weâll be grand. 
Yeah I think if Huel could manufacture PPE or ventilators itâd make more sense for us to bug them to do things. As a food manufacturer, they just need to keep on keeping on.
It bothers me during times of crisis that we treat NHS staff as noble heroes, struggling against impossible odds. We created those conditions over the past couple of decades, through our own selfishness. We should be ashamed that you all have to work understaffed, without proper resources, because thatâs not the inevitable, immutable state of a health service. We allowed this, and repeatedly encouraged it at the ballot box.
It doesnât help anyone to say this now, but itâs something all of us need to remember. Every NHS worker who gets sick because they donât have suitable protection, is sick because some posh crook decided not to spend the money.
Hey Thom, I just wanted to say your comment is lovely and incredibly down to earth. We could all take a leaf out of your book on how to look on the bright side of life.
Keep doing what youâre doing and we will do the same 
Great news we have just âsoftâ launched a 10% off discount scheme for NHS staffâŚ
Note: Itâs a soft launch, we are still testing and bug fixing so if you find any bugs just post them here and will get them fixed asap.
PS. I would like to thank our tech team and Zoe who have been working hard to get this done in short time.
Anytime 
Stay safe!
I disagree in part. but absolutely⌠anyone who voted conservative the last couple times has certainly helped create those conditions!
Hi, how do you apply this discount?
The problem with the hero talk is, it creates the expectation that medical staff should continue working despite not having protective equipment. Heroes are selfless and never stop fighting. Itâs not right! Putting your own life in danger is not part of the job. If it was a sudden plague from space, that we didnât understand, then sure. But this is a coronavirus. We know how they work and how to avoid being infected, and in the UK we had months of warning. Nobody in the health service should be in danger at work.
You might not get an official reply until the morning so Iâll have a go. It looks like you need to create a new account on the Huel store, using your NHS email address. I donât think thereâs a way to change your email address so you have to make a brand new account.
They are heroes though, certainly the team that saved my dad is to me and they always will be. The NHS takes broken people in and, for the most part, send fixed people home.
Heroism doesnât have to be saving the world like The Avengers, it can be being there to save one person, or just doing the right thing at the right time.