ROLE PLAY: patient brings you in a gift voucher to go on holiday as a thank you present, what do you do?

In a role play situation you must ensure you speak to the patient with respect but also maintain professional. Within the medical profession gifts are allowed to be accepted only up to a certain value, therefore you have to decide whether you believe the gift is acceptable. For example, a lot of patients may bring in a thank you card or box of biscuits but in this case the gift is a lot more valuable. Ideally in an interview you can't go wrong so long as you explain yourself, therefore accepting usually gift has two ideal answers. Firstly, you can kindly explain to the patient this is a lovely gift but you can accept due to regulations or secondly accept the gift but report it and give it to someone higher up. However, it is vital to notice that in this situation the patient is asking you to go on holiday with them which is not professional and therefore you would have to again kindly explain to the patient you can not go on holiday due to regulations. The patient may ask questions to try and put you off or change your mind but remain calm and repeat yourself. It would be useful in this situation to explain to the examiner that if you felt uncomfortable seeing this patient again you could report the incident.