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What does a good return to work plan look like?
By Kay Needle, Early Intervention & Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits Why are we moving towards a 2 to 4 week graded return to work being the “norm”? In our experience, this is leaving some employees feeling their employer is being unsupportive and unreasonable. In ...
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What’s it going to take to move the needle on wellbeing?
By Kay Needle, Early Intervention & Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits The world of workplace wellbeing is full of solutions, statistics, ROI justification, white papers and even calls to action. Yet wellbeing doesn’t seem to be getting better. Work related stress, depression or anxiety still ...
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Why children’s mental health is a work matter
By Tracey Ward, Business Development and Marketing Director at Generali UK Employee Benefits ‘You’re only ever as happy as your unhappiest child’. So the saying goes. All children will struggle at one point or another because, after all, we all do as adults. But when ...
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Why children’s mental health should be factored into employee benefits
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee Benefits Untreated mental health problems during childhood or adolescence can lead to a multitude of problems in adulthood; from impaired mental health and lower life satisfaction to poorer health-related quality of life, according to ...
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Post-cancer return to work support: Now a reality for more employees
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee Benefits Return to work support for people who’ve had cancer treatment seems very hit and miss, according to research. Yet the vast majority of people want to work; not only for financial reasons, but ...
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Employee Benefits: Why employers should consider offering access to at-home cervical cancer testing
By Kay Needle, Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Expert, Generali UK Employee Benefits An increasing number of employers are offering at-home, DIY, cervical cancer screening tests as part of their employee benefits programmes, according to anecdotal evidence from Check4Cancer, a leading early cancer detection company and one ...
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How vocational rehabilitation can help bridge the health work gap?
By Kay Needle, Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits In our role, which involves helping organisations support their people to return to work after sickness or injury, it’s common to hear employers say: “it’s not my place to ask about medical”. At the ...
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Do we always have to be 100% fit and well to be working?
By Kay Needle, Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits Evolution in thinking about presenteeism – the fact that there are different types and not all are bad for people or business – could arguably be applied to absence management. Changes in working practices ...
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Why running a ‘know your numbers’ event could be a lifesaver
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee Benefits A significant number of the UK workforce has hypertension, or high blood pressure, and doesn’t know it. Making lifestyle changes and/or getting treatment and support might just help save lives. So, why ...
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Is your employee benefits provider meeting Consumer Duty standards?
By Tracey Ward, Head of Marketing & Business Development, Generali UK Employee Benefits The new Consumer Duty rules, introduced last year, enhanced the Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) requirements by placing emphasis on achieving, and monitoring, good customer outcomes. The Consumer Duty rules might not always apply to ...
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How can employers help reduce workforce cancer risk?
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee Benefits In the last two years Check4Cancer has seen a huge rise in the number of employers focusing on cancer risk assessment and screening as part of employee benefit programmes. “They’re trying to protect ...
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Sustainable return-to-work, with help from Vocational Rehabilitation
By Kay Needle, Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits For employees with long-term and chronic health conditions, returning to work – or even staying in work – is rarely black and white. It’s not always a case of being fully at work, or ...