All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 243
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BGL Group launches on-site gym
BGL Group has launched an on-site gym to keep its 1,500 employees healthy.The facility is part of the Peterborough-based organisation’s MyWellbeing programme, which aims to promote awareness of health and wellbeing among employees.The heavily-subsidised gym has the latest equipment, and two instructors will be available to offer training plans and ...
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Healthy Performance launches online health tool
EXCLUSIVE: Healthy Performance has launched an online health assessment tool for employers and employees.The tool provides employers with a live dashboard where they can see anonymous, real-time data as employees complete their health assessments.Employers are then provided with an overall wellbeing score and a health risk score for their workforce, ...
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Denplan enhances product range
Denplan has enhanced the benefit limits across its Lucent product range.It will now also cover dental implants as standard and has added two new levels of cover.Other changes include:Increased cover for mouth cancer of up to £20,000.Increased hospital cash benefits.Increased cover for call-out fees.Unlimited cover for telephone consultations.Pam Whelan, head ...
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Telephonic support can facilitate return to work
The government has published its findings on the potential value of using telephone services to provide health and return-to-work support.Its Telephonic support to facilitate return to work: what works, how and when? report aims to provide an evidence base for the use of telephonic assessment and support to facilitate timely ...
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Flexible working critical to ease workplace stress
More than two-thirds (69%) of respondents believe flexible working is critical in easing work-related stress, according to research by global workplace provider Regus.Its research, which surveyed 4,000 employees, found that 45% of respondents believe stress is causing an increase in absenteeism.The research also found:38% of respondents are losing sleep worrying ...
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Court rules on disability and work-related stress
The Court of Appeal has overturned findings by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in a discrimination case between an employee suffering from work-related stress and his employer, which relied on the advice of its external occupational health advisers.The issue in Gallop v Newport City Council was to determine what is ...
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Lloyds Register centralises global mobility services
EXCLUSIVE: Lloyds Register is in the process of developing a centralised global mobility service across its international locations.The organisation, which has four business streams in energy, marine, management systems and transportation, has around 200 formal expatriate employees.Selina Jones-May, head of global mobility at Lloyds Register, said: “When I joined two ...
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Danone uses health cash plan to cut PMI costs
Danone has launched a health cash plan to supplement its private medical insurance (PMI) scheme.Its 1,300 employees will have access to the benefit, provided by BHSF, through the food manufacturer’s flexible benefits platform.The health cash plan, which includes cover for low-cost treatments, therapies and eye tests, was introduced due to ...
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InterGlobal enhances cancer cover on international PMI
InterGlobal has enhanced the cover for cancer treatment available through its 2014 UltraCare international private medical insurance (IPMI) scheme.The international medical insurer has removed previous benefit limits and excesses for cancer from its plan.Its UltraCare Standard, Select, Comprehensive and Elite plans will now cover the costs of all in-patient, day ...
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Axa PPP to launch musculoskeletal health pathway
Axa PPP Healthcare is to launch a new referral approach for employees with musculoskeletal conditions.Its Musculoskeletal Health Pathway, which will be available from 1 January 2014, aims to cut the claims’ costs of private medical insurance by ensuring employees are referred quickly to suitable providers for evidence-based care.The referral approach ...
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Article650,000 UK staff off sick each week
Nearly 650,000 UK employees phone in sick every week, according to research by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).Its research, which analysed figures from the BHF’s Health at Work programme, found that the public administration and defence sector, which includes many public sector jobs, has the highest absence levels, with approximately ...
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Network Rail launches eyecare scheme
Network Rail has introduced an eyecare scheme for its 35,000 employees.The employer is providing Premium Club vouchers, provided by Specsavers Corporate Eyecare, which offer discounts on glasses for staff and two members of their family.This is alongside eye examinations and glasses for employees to meet the legal obligations of health ...
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Case Studies
Guernsey Post provides fully-funded healthcare benefits for older workforce
Mary Hurrell, head of HR, says: “We like to look for a mature attitude. Even when we recruit people, we don’t necessarily want to be bringing in lots of young [employees] because, generally speaking, they will come in and do three or four years’ service, maximum, and then they’ll be ...
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AnalysisKey healthcare benefits for an ageing workforce
If you read nothing else, read this…Older workers may be healthier than their younger peers.But employers should be mindful of any specific health issues.Training and development can help to optimise cognitive abilities.Lamb believes the offer of companionship from a neighbour could go as far as to give an elderly person ...
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Opinion
Helena Davies: Employer duties surrounding disability and sickness absence
The claimant in HMRC v Whiteley suffered from asthma and had taken 15 days of sickness absence during a 10-month period, 14 of which were for viral and/or chest infections. The employer’s absence management policy was triggered because, even allowing for three days of absence discounted by the employer, she ...
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Buyer's guide to corporate gym membership 2013
Organisations are recognising that corporate gym membership can help to produce more engaged employees who tend to be happier and have more energy and motivation in the workplace.Signing up to corporate gym membership can save staff money, especially if it is fully funded by the employer. It can be offered ...
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Buyer's guide to healthcare trusts 2013
A cost-effective alternative to private medical insurance (PMI) is for an employer to provide medical cover for staff through a healthcare trust. This can be particularly beneficial for organisations with more than 500 employees and a medical benefit spend exceeding £250,000 a year.Healthcare trusts, which first appeared in the 1980s, ...
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David Lloyd Leisure launches corporate gym benefit
David Lloyd Leisure has launched a corporate gym membership called DL Flex.The scheme can be offered by employers to employees through a flexible benefits package, via a salary sacrifice arrangement, as a net pay gym loan deduction or as an employer-paid benefit.The corporate gym membership includes:A session with a personal ...
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Jay Butler: Which wellbeing initiative has the biggest impact on the workforce?
Activity is a key focus of MyWellbeing and is promoted widely to the organisation’s employees. We encourage staff to access our on-site fitness centres and offer tax-efficient membership through MyBenefitChoices, our flexible benefits programme, in addition to discounted rates at off-site health clubs. More than two-thirds of our employees access ...
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Thomas Hiles: Which wellbeing initiative has the biggest impact on the workforce?
Health screening can be costly and is not always widespread in UK workplaces, sometimes restricted to senior employees. But where it can be extended it is, for me, the most valuable component of a wellbeing programme. This can also explain the cost, although in the flexible benefits world, it can ...