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Health insurance

Where it was once a benefit restricted to senior management, access to private medical care has spread to the point where it is common practice in some industries to offer cover to all employees.

However, the cost of group health insurance is rising steadily.


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    Data highlights positive link between group income support and return to work

    by Nic Paton 14 May 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 May 2025

    Nearly three-quarters of workers (72%) who had to take time off for illness last year but were also working for...

    • Mental health conditions
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    • Health insurance

    ‘Healthy work’ about much more than access to EAPs, employers told

    by Nic Paton 28 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Apr 2025

    Creating a healthy workplace has to be about much more than just buying in external services such as employee assistance...

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    • Return to work and rehabilitation
    • Sickness absence management

    Half a million more now have access to group risk support – report

    by Nic Paton 23 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 23 Apr 2025

    The number of people able to access workplace-based group risk policies rose by more than half a million last year,...

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    Two-thirds of healthcare workers threaten to quit without better benefits

    by Nic Paton 31 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 31 Mar 2025

    Two-thirds of healthcare workers (62%) are threatening to quit their jobs unless their benefits package is improved, research has warned....

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    Retail employers offering fewer perks to offset wage rise

    by Jo Faragher 26 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 26 Mar 2025

    Employers in the retail sector are cutting back on workplace benefits in a bid to offset costs ahead of next...

    • Benefits
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    ‘Significant’ gap between what employers and employees expect from health benefits

    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 17 Mar 2025

    There is a “significant” gap in perceptions and expectations around health and wellbeing benefits between employers and employees, a survey...

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    Flexible working and health insurance top employee priorities – poll

    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025

    Access to flexible working, paid ‘wellness days’, and health insurance or physical wellness programmes are employees' top priorities.

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    Half more likely to choose an employer offering health benefits – poll

    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025

    More than half (56%) of UK workers say they are now more likely to accept a job with an employer...

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    People unable to access dentistry because of ‘eye-watering’ price hikes

    by Nic Paton 2 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 2 Jan 2025

    People up and down the country are being left unable to access dentistry because of ‘eye-watering’ increases in private fees,...

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    Meet & Engage carries off the HR Tech Provider of the Year Award 2024

    by Jo Faragher 20 Nov 2024
    by Jo Faragher 20 Nov 2024

    The judges praised Meet & Engage's tailored approach, which supports candidates from application to job offer and its appealing platform.

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    Real-time reporting of benefits in kind to start in 2026

    by Rob Moss 30 Oct 2024
    by Rob Moss 30 Oct 2024

    The government has confirmed plans to mandate the real-time reporting of most benefits in kind (BiKs) via payroll software starting in April 2026.

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    Purchasing OH needs to be about ‘how does this align?’

    by Nic Paton 22 Oct 2024
    by Nic Paton 22 Oct 2024

    Buyers and purchasers of occupational health and wellbeing products and services need to retain a healthy scepticism of what salespeople...

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    Widespread ignorance of links between dental and physical and mental health – poll

    by Nic Paton 23 Sep 2024
    by Nic Paton 23 Sep 2024

    Nearly two-thirds of 18-34-year-olds (65%) know less about their dental health than they do about their mental health, illustrating the...

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    • Health insurance

    Two-fifths favour ‘protective’ benefits over higher salary

    by Jo Faragher 27 Mar 2024
    by Jo Faragher 27 Mar 2024

    Two in five employees in the UK would take a pay cut if they were offered better benefits, according to a survey from MetLife UK.

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    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Better off more likely to have access to employer healthcare

    by Nic Paton 27 Nov 2023
    by Nic Paton 27 Nov 2023

    People who are financially comfortable are much more likely to be able to access employer-funded healthcare than those who are less well off.

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