Thanks - it's ok though I had the mistress round tonight and she cooks a cracking toad in the hole :smirk:

I very much doubt they will be eating at KFC with a salary like that.

KFC - "kant find the chicken":confused:

"Of the 1.2 million staff in the NHS, it is likely
that around 300,000 would be classified as
obese and a further 400,000 as overweight."

Shocked :confused:

Will the local nhs hospital directors on 200,000 pounds a year get the 20% discount ?

no NHS discount in 3 KFCs local to me

They only give 15% at local KFC for nhs staff unless they've got 5% commission

I rung a few KFC branches randomly and none of them offered the discount. One said that the NHS ID would need to be loaded onto an app first but he didn't know which one! The rest flat out said they have never offered NHS discounts.

never realised! will remember now! Karen Beard!

Have been to our local KFC tonight in King's Lynn and they refused to give us any discount. Both of us work for the NHS. :disappointed:

They don't do 20% NHS discount. I've just been in our KFC :disappointed::disappointed::disappointed:

NHS save people forces kill people

DOH! Admin on wards and clinics, of course a NHS needs accountants, more than it needs overpaid admin and bank nurses over underpaid nurses, NHS chief executives should be voted for by trust patients based on proven experience on running organisations.


9% of national income is poor, poor health services costs the country alot in DWP benefits and disabled tax credits and thus housing and council tax benefits also, add in social wprk and social care and we have a situation where every government organisation is fighting each other for funding and who loses out ? citizens. I would abolish DWP, HMRC could easily implement DWP benefits to be Universal Credit into its existing IT and the money saved on DWP & local authority wages (Housing and Council Tax benefits is only administered by councils the DWP foot the bill) and pensions would be absolutely immense by immense billions to plough back into NHS whilst councils have a boost removing Revenues staff from DWP administration.

Have a look at at the Dept of Health spin off depts and how your local NHS trust is actually structured past the hospital, you will be shocked. A GP is not a NHS employee, its funded by the NHS as is your dentist, if you have a complaint against a GP its dealt with by the practice not the NHS. Like everything government - fragmented at high cost. Local delivery fragments with out sourcing and Virgin Health Services arw away to make that worse in England, but your GP's all do that already.

Fragmented and privatised NHS health care has been happening since NHS trusts and GP's outsourcing, a GP practice is there to make money at the best rate it can for its Dr's saleries not look after you at the expense of their pocket, patients have been a by product for a long time already, private companies may do a better job than what some of the GP's and dentists take in salary to date - not that I agree with NHS trusts nor outsourcing of medical professionals at all, the NHS was for patients not high overpaid people, NHS staff are some of the best paid in the world let alone the EU above nurses on the front line, and unqualified training junior doctors think they have it bad...try being a qualified nurse wage to a Dr who swans in and out the wards. By no means is that any excuse for poor performance by a nurse though, you went in training knowing the shortages and pay because the NHS has always been such, but look back the Dr's and consultants pay gap over that period, then add in all the admin & managers over a short period, its not science to see whats gone wrong.

What the NHS was set up to do was: {meet the needs of everyone, be free at the point of delivery, be based on clinical need, not ability to pay}.

This costs a lot of money. £112bn now, bit more each year. (graph below) theoretically it could cost a lot more, and probably theoretically an unlimited amount if you don't set some limits on what you will pay for.

Do you really think the government is(or should) going to hand that money (and more each year) over to a some kind of independent entity(overseen by whom?) or that the public would really tolerate that?
And according to you this budget should be managed by doctors with a secretary with Microsoft Office because anything more is too much 'admin'? :disappointed:

hot based on the wolf picture lol

Well thats not so, in England you voted for it... when did the tories ever invest in anything other than privately and shares and public sell offs ?

Tory tosh. stop the DWP benefits when a small minority are the cons, cut the child tax credit, why not just invest that and child benefit amount ONCE per family in education including morning and after school clubs, if you want the best for your child you now have a 12 hour window to go work your butt off to do so, if you want a subsidy for your second child onwards you and its other parent better work 10 hour days 5 days a week, whilst the state feeds your child a healthy meal 3 times a day and educates them to a better standard with the new investment they just got that parents can no longer use on processed food, cars and mortgages. Why should every childs parent be subsidised ? Benefit cap or not, the cap should be one child per adult financing, straight to education whilst you pay your outgoings on a hard grafts wage to buy your child what it needs past education in food, finance, english.


And add to that 1 hour voluntary service per month to your childs school for assistant duties to reduce cost, Its pathetic how spoilt the UK is. MP's and governments havent a clue how to best practice anything but debt and sell off assets to pay for it with unlimited borrowing powers, that is not how you run a company, organisation oe even a country.

It's all going to be privatised, and people will only bother helping you if there's money in it for them. This is why the Gov is trying to drive down standards for Junior Doctors, to make it look more commercial to potential buyers when they sell it off in chunks.

Have you spent extended time in their company on the job? They may be selfless outside the job but having worked along side you find professionalism and standards are lacking worse than Tesco staff because they know depts cover inept because it makes the sense with PR that public bodies are great at their work...its a fantasy pushed locally, centrally and nationally, public services are a disgrace. Its the minority who shine, dont let the stress compromise why they went public in the first place... not the majority staff, for them its just a decent wage not having to live in a fest pit of poverty ridden housing estate, who many look down on, when its the minority who deserve to be looked down on not the majority. Public service is them and us, very few stars of public service think opposite to that.


When I think about the NHS Junior doctors I laugh,instead of fighting for a capped week as per EU directives and demanding for public safety a fully qualified consultant for every dept available 24/7 instead of those training left overworked and exhausted...the juniors are as unprofessional as the ministers running by not demanding such, it all levels there is stupidity. I pay tax, so why is a qualified consultant not available 24/7 365... because medically unqualified admin exist eating the money and greedy bank nurses exist because the NHS admin costs nursing saleries, if you cant do admin as part of your medical qualification and/or assist a minimum pay admin assistant tax credit single parent with a Microsoft Office qualification to input such on a ward then no level of NHS staff have the right to manage, admin or otherwise including ministers. What matters is patients and superb care and tell me how that improved by splitting the NHS up with every NHS body setting their own standards based on a lose moral guidance from ministers.


The NHS until it is independent of government and run by patients for patients will never work as it was set up to do.

they'll only give it if they can be bothered lol

Definitely,there's no shame being a member of the armed forces.

You're entirely misunderstanding the point of discounts. NHS discounts don't exist because KFC etc give a damn about NHS workers they do it because it encourages a large group of customers to spend money there, and because it's kind of expected now and they don't want the negative publicity of not having one.

Even if it was to do with helping NHS workers it's insulting to huge numbers of hard working and vital employees in other sectors who often have worse conditions and/or lower pay. I know plenty of people who work in the armed forces, police, NHS etc and they are no more selfless and civic minded on average than anyone else.

I work for kfc and you can't use your 20 percent off and military or nhs discount at the same time sorry

Everything gets raided by private companies eventually, they have an ever expanding virtually unimpeded powerbase. Eventually we will have The KFC Parliment Building & The Colonel Sanders MP's....

Yeah he might, because its not Halal...and its no doubt a human right all chickens are blessed by more than Bernard Matthews under extremist legislation.

If a forces service personal want to wear their uniform with pride they should, esp being the tories skivvies in environments the whinging NHS staff would mostly crumble and cry and beg for mercy like one of their patients!

I wrote a long reply on my experiences with a unprivatised Scots NHS which were very poor, but I think the tories privatised HUKD server under a insurance reinsurance asset switch handoff capital venture vulture bond to some USA bank again and it got lost, I will however rewrite the end...


My thoughts are with you and your family.


Best regards Phila,



Seani

Hotter nurses shoes are damn comfortable, I even bought a 'womans' cream pair for driving in, of course being the tight Scots git I am I paid £15 for a £70 pair, I have no idea what was womanly about them as its not like they had any heel at all ? Marketing...

WE? you mean Tory privatisation round 2, the tories England voted in! Aint hindsight a great thing, you all knew what Maggie done first time round, so I'm sorry England cant cry over spilt milk, you can try but up north will hold you to account, the English NHS is what you all voted for via the election so enjoy National Virgin Service, you voted for it.Lets face facts, if Liberals got in down south, student fees would probably been abolished as a PR stunt and the NHS protected.

No I'm not anti English, I'm anti stupidity...in people let alone governments and its depts.


I must go now and put my milk back in the fridge now, before some tory creates a draft chapping my letterbox (desperately looking for support for more than its 1 seat in Southern border Scotland) and my milk falls over, because i'm not having that then crying crocodile tears I am not pro active :smiley:

more baiting, come back when you get a life and walk in a nurses shoes!

lol this is just hate for the nhs but why ? really guys ?
We are in the final stages of privatisation of the NHS Currently, junior doctors are the ones under attack; deskilling is part of the privatisation agenda. However, key services such as cleaning, porters and catering have already been outsourced and downsized. Student nurses also face cuts to bursaries. Effectively they will be delivering a service, which is a compulsory part of their training, for free.
Highly skilled medics will inevitably leave the NHS, but not through choice. This would not be a problem for a privatised system, as it will rely mainly on lower skilled staff, assistants and volunteers.
Many of patients have suffered avoidable harm. There is not enough capacity and staff morale is low. Casualties cannot retain high calibre staff. Hospitals are dumping work onto overstretched GPs. Recruitment and retention is currently a problem across the board.

Unprofitable care will be neglected. Mental Health patients are most vulnerable and least vocal. They are easy targets of a profit-making take over. Elderly patients will also be neglected in their own homes rather than being admitted to non-existent hospital beds.Not even the wealthy patients with the top-of-the-range health insurance are safe as
There is a risk that expensive medical bills are rejected on flimsy grounds after medical records have been scrutinised. The goal of any insurance company is not to pay out and to retain, as many premiums are possible. This will be the same for health care insurance. This is dangerous and takes away NHS culture.
Politicians have gradually and covertly introduced privatisation but the media has a role to play too.
all to soon virgin care will charge us to use the NHS or whats left of it and ...

you guys moan about 20% off fried chichen pmsl ! :laughing::laughing:

This whine could apply to thousands of different employers.

Thanks Seaniboy. Unfortunately common sense and pragmatism like we have is a rare, if not non-existent, trait in senior government.......................

Remember recently the govt discouraged military personnel to wear their uniform in public (or a Help for Heroes t-shirt) in case they get stabbed by some lunatics,like poor Lee Rigby.:disappointed:
A loony might see your forces ID in KFC and start getting fanatical.:confused:

As long as it was the food ones they had there mitts on lol

You should know the spanish like short cuts, why cook during siesta when you can buy, and if you cant be bothered cooking or are poor because your government cant afford to feed you let bail itself out...steal

:smile::wink:

My experience with the NHS has been mixed. I've recently had physio for a frozen shoulder (2nd time) and the assessment and treatment was very quick. Had the same problem a couple of years ago and was a little slower but still quick. The service given has been very good and professional. That's the upside.

The way my late mother was treated in hospital was pretty appalling and some 6 months after she died there, we were told out of the blue that they (the coroner's office) were investigating her death and were going to open an inquest. The medical records of my mother's treatment and actions taken had been falsified/amended and it transpired she'd died several hours before the recorded time of death.

The afternoon before she died I was very concerned about her and tried to speak to a doctor to find out what was wrong. There were NO doctors available so I could only speak to a nurse. That was hopeless too - of the 4 nurses on duty in her ward, all were foreign and none could speak English very well at all (in fact two of them, when I spoke to them, had a panicked look on their face to suggest they couldn't understand a word I was saying so said nothing and instead went off and got the other nurses that could speak a bit of English). It really was little more than broken English and was hopeless - they couldn't understand what I was saying and I couldn't make sense of their replies.

In the end I gave up and decided I was going back first thing the next morning to get some answers. It was a Sunday and so all the talk lately about weekend being the worst time to be in hospital rings true in my experience as there were NO doctors around, which I find unbelievable.

As it turned out, after speaking to my sister she decided she would go in first thing as she had other concerns too - when she'd seen my mum that morning before I went in to see her in the afternoon, she had noticed severe bruising all down my mum's arm - it was black and purple and she asked the same nurses (that I later spoke to) what had happened since the day before. She had the same problem as I'd had, hence why she wanted to go in next morning. I'd not seen the bruising as my mum had a cardigan on - I would have gone ballistic if I had and by the time my sister got home to ring me to tell me, I was already in the hospital with my phone switched off so didn't know. We never did get a satisfactory answer as to what had happened. Luckily my sister took several pictures of her arm which were sent to the coroner.

I got a call around 7.30am the following morning from my brother to say that my mum had gone into cardiac arrest and so I made a bee-line to the hospital. Halfway there I got another call from my brother to say she'd died. Neither my brother or sister had got there in time either - they were on their way to see her and speak to a doctor - none of us ever realised she was in danger of dying. But as I said, it was pointless us rushing anyway as she'd died several hours earlier (although we didn't know that at the time) and for some unknown reason, they falsified the records to make it fit with what they were telling us that morning.

As a final insult, they asked if we'd like to go in and see her. I didn't want to but was persuaded to by my brother and sister. Well to say we were shocked when we did go behind the curtains to see her would be an understatement! They hadn't even bothered to tidy up her belongings - she had various things still littered on her bed, as well as her bedside mobile table being littered with possessions and half eaten food and her handbag left wide open on its side with stuff having fallen out onto the floor which they hadn't even bothered to pick up! I don't want to go into detail but the way she was in herself and 'presented' to us, lying there in bed, was horrendous and I thought to myself instantly "She's been dead for hours"! It was a horrible sight and something I've never gotten over. I couldn't say anything and hurriedly left within 10 seconds in tears. That is the overriding and enduring last memory of my mum, yet it shouldn't have been like that. And the stupid nurses hadn't thought anything of it - in fact they were actually a few yards away just chatting and laughing about something (presumably unconnected)!

Now I'm not suggesting all nurses, foreign or British, are like that, I'm just stating my experience and the facts. The question is why is the NHS employing people that can barely speak English AND are so bad at their job?? They should employ more British people (after all we have enough unemployed people) and that will mean helping with student loans/costs AND paying better wages to attract people in the first place!

The NHS should be subjected to the same "efficiency drive" that everybody else in the public sector has had to deal with, but the NHS spending has been 'ring-fenced' which means they haven't had to suffer any spending cuts like all other government departments have. That is wrong - there is so much waste in the NHS and they could easily save billions facing a "more for less" approach which could be spent on better trained staff and better wages. All other government departments have managed it yet the NHS has a bigger budget than any other department - something like £120Billion a year, so there would be Billions to save, if anybody had the political will to do it and the public didn't become hysterical about it!

The NHS is no different to any other public department - there are great people, good people, ok people, lazy people and terrible people working for them. Hard-working and lazy workers. Fat and thin (yes, FAT and THIN!). Yes you could say "well nobody forced them to become a nurse" or whatever, and they'd have a fair point. But then a lot of people that work in the NHS do so because of the type of person they are. My niece does and she has to put up with a load of abuse at times, but she really likes what she does yet doesn't get paid very well. I couldn't do it so I take my hat off to them.

But that doesn't mean that the NHS shouldn't be reformed - it badly needs it. It's that or privatisation I'm afraid. Either way, it's going to cost money, a LOT of money, to make it better, regardless of whether it is privatised or not.

They should subject all workers to efficiency checks and standards just like all other government departments. All those that don't measure up should be sacked or made redundant - just like all other public sector workers have had to face. This will get rid of all the poor staff which means they can employ and train better, new staff - wherever they come from - which means we're getting better value for money. My background is in the public sector and I should know that, no matter what department, you get a substantial number of lazy, inefficient and simply poor workers that cause no end of problems and make those that do a good job (the majority) have to work so much harder. I really think we ought to train our own British staff, but I also think staff from abroad should be considered too, but should obviously be able to speak English to a high standard as a bare minimum requirement!

And people should be prepared to either pay more taxes/NI to give us the service we want/expect, or if they're not prepared to do so shut up and accept privatisation is the only option. Taxes would (or should) then go down and you could use that money to take out medical insurance to get the better NHS that everybody seems to want.

The NHS is good generally, but it's badly broken and needs to be reformed one way or another and the government should start to pay the lower paid staff, especially nurses, a hugely better salary for what they are expected to do and put up with. Wages are a fairly small part of the £120 billion cost of running the NHS so I'd say give lower paid staff at least a 25% pay-rise, maybe more, but they must be subjected to performance and ability checks and if they don't measure up, get shot. Harsh but fair.

And I suspect people are thinking - "what's this got to do with KFC?". Well, I really couldn't care less if NHS staff get a discount (they really don't get anything in the way of perks - if you can call KFC discount a "perk" that is, so why not) and, well, my dear old mum loved KFC........................

Private sector is just as bad, you dont really hear about it but watch panaroma about winterbourne view... private sector for ya. Give me the sugar... tbh I drink tea, eat beans & have smelly pumps

we shall remember that when you twist comming in to be seen, remember we all get poop in different ways, oh my pension is poop btw since the Tories removed any sort of perk. what gives doctor and nurses a bad rep is peopel like yourself. Its ok though because you have to blame someone dont we?

You're a giffer.

is my statement not true?

Its full of bloomin monkeys, wee **** stole my sausage rolls in the 90s!

The point in life is not to have attitude, but a great outlook regardless of how little you have or think you have.

There is this bit on mainland Spain :wink: Which given the EU I cant believe we have not had to hand back...
Also it is the minority who are great with patients, you dont see shelf stackers treat customers like a annoyance at any time because a P45 would be issued for bringing the company into disrepute, making a complaint is like you are not thankful for the treatment thats is free, tax is not free !

There is this bit on mainland Spain :wink: Which given the EU I cant believe we have not had to hand back...

Yes I would allow it, but discounts aimed at government employees should not be allowed, it is a perk of a large organisation. Government depts are not a organisation as such they are there to maintain protection and order, not to get external perks, just like MP's who have to declare things.

Wow so many NHS haters on HUKD :confused:

Why didn't we fight to hold onto somewhere decent with a bit of sunshine. NI is freezin just like the Falklands.

rang up at my local kfc and they confirm 15% discount ?

Mindlessly followed orders and killed somebody? 20% off on KFC!

No, that's not 'called equality'.
Government employees 'serve' all other citizens (including each other). How could they have no advantage over any of them - that would be ridiculous, you'd have to pay them all nothing.
You could try and say they should be paid the average wage that's a lot more reasonable but still pretty challenging to implement.
With regards this situation this is KFC doing what it wants - is the government supposed to adjust its wage to account for a temporary chicken-related discount which some of its employees may or may not take up? KFC can do what it wants. Discounts of this kind are marketing. Would you allow them (KFC) the discretion to discount for eg. women, children, OAP, mcdonalds employees, asians, blind, scottish?

and if everyone had that attitude then this country would be more in trouble than it is now.

Has anyone tried this yet? Seems odd they're offering 15% off with StudentBeans + KFC app as well as/alternatively 20% off with a student card...

Couldnt agree more. The NHS suck at taking responsibility

but the brits love to moan and not actually do anything to change their circumstances, it is worse in public service because the empire mentally still exists right through government, even though the empire is really holding on to N.I and a island off Argentina at how much cost in the 1980's, human beings were killed for a crappy little island because the empire mentality still exists then and now, newsflash brits NI and F islands - we stole them in the firstplace!

Government employees should have no advantage over who they are paid to serve in any situation, its called equality.

Can't decide whether to train as a doctor or join RAF. 20% is 20%. And I really like KFC.

I think discounts for public service workers should be banned its unfair our tax pays their wages and they get special treatment over the public they serve. More so unhealthy food discounts.

You usually only find KFC NHS discounts offered when there is a hospital nearby. Same with many other retailers. I am still waiting to see somewhere offering discount to tax inspectors or traffic wardens.

You do realise it's not compulsory National Service? There are plenty of other career options.

Good customer relation skills

i think giving nhs staffs the 20% discount is ok.im sure it is not everyday that they will go to kfc and eat crap! kfc is like a comfort food for some. so after a crazy shift, kfc would be a nice treat!

Front line forces (thats military service for the public services employees) used to get free train travel in uniform, disgusting it was removed. I was always told you should service them to your ability for the sacrifice they make.

EEEK...someone call a therapist!!!!

Sometimes risking their lives for no reason at all! Must stop WMD or patrol IED infested areas which had nothing to do with defending this country.... I sure would never had signed up for just 10 or 20% off at KFC it would need to be at least 80% off.... Front line boots on the ground forces deserve it for free IMO.

w*nker

Just a heads up and apologies if it's already been posted, but you can get 20% off new Vodaphone contracts as well if you're in the NHS, Police and Forces.

And where do the NHS doctors or Nurses go when they need something? Do they just click their fingers and all their worldly needs are taken care of because they're all such a perfect angelic bunch?

I can assure you, my wife being one of them, they are no different from the rest of us. She readily admits you'll find just as many lazy, bone idle, useless, thick, thieving, lying, cheating, etc .... so and so's as in most other walks of life. And this public deification only makes things worse as it shields people from accountability and fosters nepotism and self interest. Why would that be an issue for her? Because the rest have to make up the slack for the bone idle **** resting on their laurels and taking advantage of their angelic status.

The Chorley branch of KFC has to be the dirtiest restaurant I've ever been in. It wasn't just that none of the tables were cleared of food or wiped down, but food was all over the floor and chairs. Yet there was only 2 customers (including me) and there was about 6 staff about doing either nothing or very little. I don't think any of them had entered the eating area for over 4 hours. Obviously I've never entered a KFC since.

KFC fed nurses.......mmmmmm.......:stuck_out_tongue:

the hound awoooo

If you get a receipt, just leave a review. The first time you'd not receive discount, but thereafter you'd get 20%.

Yes I have and I can say as a midwife with 20yrs experience - it's b******s! Pardon my french!!

Is this at all kfc?

And that's their choice most of them will never see action. They have made the choice they know the risks. I Don't see people who work on the rail lines get this treatment and that's high risk. If they don't like the risks don't do the job. They are paid really well anyway for their career

​they can work in the private sector..nobody's forced to work for nhs

Bought a 10 piece feast bucket for the first time in years last Nov. I had 2 pieces my wife one, the kids had a bite each then said it was nasty and just ate the fries. Two hours later I had gut ache for a couple of hours. The gulls got the rest the next morning, even they didn't seem too fussed.
Slick advertising is the only reason anyone gets excited about their antibiotic laced, 28 day old crippled chicken.

You're all talkers, listening to talkers makes me thirsty

lol if you had bad back or your suffering from stress ? where would you go then ? to the nhs doctors or nhs mental health services !!!! :wink:

I don't get why forces staff get discount. They are choosing to do a career like anyone else. Why should they get discounts when others like teachers don't.

Try working for yourself - no pension, no sick pay because you have a bad back or your suffering from stress etc etc don't feel sorry for you at all.

I just want to know which tastes better,halal or non-halal!!
I have no discrimination: pork,beef,halal,kosher.
I eat everything!! :smile:

Poor old NHS employees, how do they manage working in those dirty mines on £3 an hour in a career they didn't choose. Oh wait.

​zR U the todie?

overweight people are everywhere! unfair to just point on nhs staffs. also, most of the nhs staffs that i see are actually normal built, probably coz they burned loads of calories at work.

I have never stepped foot in a KFC, i leave that to the scum of society

...It doesn't say they wouldn't. If I earn't £200k a year I would still use hotukdeals and be frugal. Just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean you cant be frugal.

The best card i have as it gives loads of discounts.

Will be giving it to junior doctors

Forces discount only 10%

20% for the NHS
15% for Students
10% for military

I'm surprised The Sun hasn't picked up on this...

I know how you feel on my long day! 13hrs and with limited staff and patients to look after its sometimes difficult to get even a drink. so a kfc after work is a perk of the NHS LOL we get sod all else since out pension was raped and the government demonised us :disappointed: zinger wicked box meal please :wink:

after eating kfc you'd most likey need the NHS :smile:

If that's real chicken...then I'm the pope of Rome lads......just sayin...

Is that Eric Cantona 7 on the pic?....lol

The food of champions, to fuel our health and self-defence organisations........

Aye miserable KFC lot are. They will only give discount with a Defence Discount Card and not your actual military ID.

Heat for the KFC Photo hahaha... "the hound" go ed la

KFC is a franchise, so the discount depends on the owners. Same with all the other chain restaurants. The only consistent one I've seen in Dominos Pizza who do 50% for Forces (the odd one does only 20%) and Nandos do 20% too.

In the states, it's practically everywhere you get discount for being in the Military. Witnessed a guy flash his ID and the cashier said "Oh, thank you for your service sir, the adjusted price is $xxxx". I tried my luck and showed her my British Army ID and after looking at it sprung up and said "Oh yes, definitely can accept that!"

Here I think twice and have to do my 5s and 20s before asking for a discount, and usually just get told, "Sorry, students only", since they deserve it way more!

Quite right. I don't have a problem with halal, but would like a choice and KFC's reasons are a joke. They say that they only use stores where there is a community that will have a strong demand.
I live in Halifax and there is well over 20 takeaways that serve fried chicken and all of them are halal.
Doesn't this satisfy the demand?
Some might say "it's not actually KFC though"
Fair point. What isn't fair is that Halifax isn't huge yet it still has 2 KFCs and BOTH are halal only!

Maybe 45% off if you are a Student in the Military working for the NHS :wink:

Yes it's only 10% for military forces and most you can just show your ID, you need the Defence Forces Discount card to get it which is £5 for 5 years. This isn't even a deal, it's been on for years so cold from me.

I doubt someone on £200k avails themselves to the 20% NHS discount as much as someone whose on zero hours would do.

Thats terrible, poor you. I hate KFC btw.

So you think its ok for someone on 200k to get a sympathy discount yet at the same time somesone as an example on a zero hour contract earning minimum wage gets zip ?

I work 80 hours a week and am 6' 2" and weigh 13 stone working long hours without a break doesn't mean you have to eat crap.

Sure, just like we don't have horse meat burgers because it's illegal. :wink:

Yip, I did a 14 hour shift on Sat, 7 - 9 with no break....try it!

I'm afraid it won't just be KFC but many other places you go to.You don't get a choice of non-halal!!
Got no problem with halal or kosher,just don't want it forced on me whether I want it or not!!

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/parents-angered-as-every-pupil-is-given-halal-school-meals-7212238.html
Sorry kids,you don't get a choice.:neutral_face:

who's in the image above get deal?

They already do, it's called "staff discount". :wink:

At last someone who speaks with a bit of intelligence! Just because:
You met some fat people who work for the NHS, or
You work for the NHS but you are thin,
you really can't scale up your experience! In such a small sample there could be any number of reasons for people's size or health condition.

Voted Hot ... which is ironic given that my KFC usually isnt!

Only for people who don't understand basic statistics and/or people who would get shocked by the sun coming up in the morning. The world doesn't revolve around you, and the 7 staff members aren't a statistically significant sample of a workforce of over 1 million, so your very limited anecdotal evidence isn't equivalent to fact or even insight.

The UK operation is run very differently to the US one. Mainly because our welfare standards are higher.

NHS workers are priviliged

Dominos Pizza give 40 - 50% discount for Forces and NHS staff.

"Of the 1.2 million staff in the NHS, it is likely
that around 300,000 would be classified as
obese and a further 400,000 as overweight."

Shocked :confused:

They didn't show that on the KFC television documentary. They were in a big warehouse all walking around happy as a chicken can be with some bloke who loved every single one of them. Maybe they breed them in different places ? :confused:

Everyone can get 20% off, just fill in this survey before you go.

https://www.yourkfc.co.uk/Index.aspx?c=352808

and use fake details. on the first screen, then have some fun with the survey.

Can't believe the amount of heat this has received, especially with the misleading title, HM Forces is 10% .....and I know it says that in the post but it should also be stated in the title.

Thought the discounts at KFC were common knowledge, seeing how its nothing new and they've been doing it for years...........Obviously not

Never seen NHS discount in a KFC.

Poor poor chickens, i bet all them people who believe in reincarnation pray they dont become an egg/chicken lol

A peta website sounds like a reliable and unbiased source of info....

Thanks OP. NHS discount, excellent stuff.

From egg to the slaughterhouse in 35 days - says it all really....

All Welcome Break KFC's and Burger King's offer forces discount of 10% too

So wrong.

Forces only get half the discount because they save as many people as they kill... makes sense

Been over 20 years since I had any though used to like them now and again. Read stuff at Kentuckyfriedcruelty.com which made me decide to boycott. If some other big name fast food outlets can adhere to better standards, its a shame this lot didn't either.

thank you for putting it that way. massive problem in uk (not nhs). people dont have to keep on blaming nhs for everything.

I have the Defence Discount Card, KFC do give 20% off your total bill, never had a problem.

No it makes them healthier than the national average. Not the average workforce.

I used to go to KFC twice a week, but since they chanced their fries to the new oily/crispy ones I havnt been back since, the fries are absolutely nasty! A lot of my friends & family have stopped going there too, I rather go to Nando's twice a month, at least the chips/fries are GREAT! KFC should bring back the chunky fries & also offer sweet potato fries/ wedges too, even the 20% off is not good enough as I'll be binning the awful cardboard fries

I work for NHS, you Jerk and I am rather skinny. Just in case you don't know, NHS employs around 1.3 million people in UK and you think they all look the same way, eh?

Thanks for your service saving people. Take this discount for killing chickens.

To be honest the chaps initial comment about obesity isn't relevant to a deals forum, I don't think its particularly classy.
As an emergency service worker I can confirm that working shifts and rarely getting the time to sit down and prepare not mind eat food leads to a pretty unhealthy diet or lifestyle. I don't think many workers get called out to do something after 5 minutes when they have just sat down so don't pick upon people in these services. There is an obesity epidemic nationwide because of sedentary lifestyles, its a sad fact but true.

So the national population statistics are that 61.7% of UK adults are overweight and 26% obese...which makes the NHS healthier than the average workforce...

Unfortunately working in emergency services / the police / the armed forces the usual entitlements for breaks are not given

Try working 12 hour shifts with no break that is why NHS staff eat sugary foods

can anyone confirm this 20% off for NHS store specific?

Forces is now 10%. But nandos you get 20% for a £20 limit. :smiley:

Do you think the bulk chicken and hunks of salty adherent are hand crafted by some artisan chef at your branch? It's all delivered ready to go by articulated lorry for every franchise.

You need a good bucket of KFC if you want to go out and murder innocent Iraqi and Afghan kids

I refuse to vote as Ive had numerous disputes with KFC's in my area over what discounts they take. I work for the NHS and am also a student. Here is the list of my locals with discounts offered:

Stores
Trafford Centre: None
Trafford Retail Park: Police discount only
Old Trafford: Student (NUS) only
Altrincham: None
Salford Pendleton: NHS discount!!

It's a nightmare! Even the staff often have to ask management what they can and can't except as discount. Better off taking the survey under different emails for continuous discount.

KFC - "kant find the chicken":confused:

KFC dont know about their own offers on their reward app and head office are useless they just sent me the wording on the terms which i had already referred to in my email and when i emailed never ever got a response

Somebody's got to eat the chicken ?

? So I have to be an 'angel' or a sheep to get a discount at house of greasy chicken now? Cameron's Britain yo, Cameron's Britain.

it depends on the franchise, i dont think the head office owned ones do it (norwich ring road)

none of the other ones in norwich do it, and only one in ipswich (bixley road)

all of the norwich burger kings do though!

What hes saying is correct, 24.9% are obese with 61.7% obese or overweight. However these are the UK figures as a whole. So yes the NHS staff are overweight as are bus drivers, office workers etc etc http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/statistics-and-causes-of-the-obesity-epidemic-in-the-UK.aspx

FYI same at Nandos

Yet the NHS is always complaining about obese people putting a strain on our health system... not gonna be very good when the drs and nurses are all obese too!!

Awful stuff

Buy a Coke under the new NHS 20% Sugar Levy and get 20% off your KFC order - because fast food is so much better than excessive sugar!

​ever watched one born every minute? they seem to be eating cake every minute too!

I have read all the comments, and seen the numbers. What I'm saying is, the hospitals aren't actually struggling, it would make good news to report that they are, hence why it's in the news. Rarely are news stories conservative with any numbers. Like I said, remember that a large amount of NHS staff don't work in hospitals. As others have said, it's a nationwide issue, on my way to work I see a lot of overweight people, I don't think they're all going to Barnet hospital... News companies know they'll get away with slagging off the NHS, whereas companies would take them to court over it. The NHS has FAR more pressing issues; staff going off sick, not having enough staff, not enough space, junior doctor issues etc.

​im overweight but not lazy, keep your stupid opinions to yourself,****.

​I suspect it's exactly the same as an average weight and hight Brit.

​I think the country in general has massive problems with their weight!

I work for the NHS and not one member of staff in our department is overweight so keep your daft assumptions to Yourself. how many people at your work are overweight then?

Selected branches only Wakefield do but barnsley dont

You are right. A few weeks ago we went to see a nutritionist. She was a young woman, in her twenties and she was soooo big. First I thought i came to the wrong place

The last time I got one I only got 10% despite showing my NHS badge and prior to that in another branch the manager said sorry we dont do it anymore.

Read all the above comments & then google obese staff NHS. Actual Government statistics exist & I suggest they are being conservative.

Thanks for reading.

There is no such problem. A large portion of NHS staff don't work in hospitals and no hospital I've worked in has been seen to be struggling because of overweight staff. No more so than any other company/organisation in the UK anyway. Things are just exaggerated because its the NHS. Not sure why you think you're in a position to be passing judgement on anyone in the first place though.

The ones at Bolton Valley and Bolton Middlebrook do; I get fire service discount and my wife gets NHS if she goes.

Also quite funny that Doctors who are obviously in the Obease region, tell people who are slightly overweight to lose weight to improve their health :smile:

Same at my local gp where well rounded nurses hand out leaflets about the importance of physical activity and healthy eating.

20% Forces discount in Costa at Moto Services, in case you didn't know. Not sure about NHS will check next time I'm working.

Just FYI, if you are paying for her to come round she is no longer a mistress, she's a sex worker.

Thanks - it's ok though I had the mistress round tonight and she cooks a cracking toad in the hole :smirk:

Just remember to take care of yourself too. No one needs a rundown tired husband. Best wishes to you both.

Discounts in franchise places are very hit and miss. I never normally ask for a discount but have occasionally asked if they do offer one. some yes, some no, some if it it's after 12 on a full moon with thunder storms and your in fancy dress.
The one place that said they did I asked for it it the next time I was there and they said they didnt do one!
Probably good as it stops you eating there as much as you would.

No NHS discount in KFC..at least not in my local area

Normally its 10% it use to be 20% but they keep changing it, sad times

heat for the deal image

Absolutely gutted, I didn't join the army and am to old now, would have risked my life if I'd known I was going to be offered cheap KFC!!!

​Well said it was a stupid comment to make

15% off for students too.

A colleague told me about this some time ago. But I got refused in Leigh. Said I was going to complain to HO but never got round to it.

yes . I was told by a member of staff that its legit

do the survey and you can get 20% off plus forces 10% discount aswell

20% off your next purchase when you do the survey, i went the other day and i've still got the receipt

(I sound like a KFC expert :P First time i've been in about 6 months)

Its 10%.

You can get the discount using this as well:

https://www.defencediscountservice.co.uk/

You can also get loads of other others by buying the above card (£5 last 5 years i think)

can you stack this? as you get I think 25% off your next order when you
complete a short survey about your visit to kfc.

Always used to get my brothers orders wrong so stopped going to KFC and
now going to Cottage Chicken. Not as tasty but you get allot more and your order right.

edit here is the link and its 20%click me

Majority of kfc branch wouldn't give the discount to NHS when I asked :disappointed: only a couple of branch would ie: Gorton & Walkden

does it say this on their website somewhere?

deal pic......GoT hound.:smile:

Me too ?