Healthcare & wellbeing
The wellness and wellbeing perk has become an important part of company healthcare and sickness absence strategies. Health care benefits that prevent staff from falling ill include gym membership for staff, healthcare cash plans, private medical insurance (PMI), employee assistance programmes (EAP) and health screening; while absence management helps employees to return to work after spells of sickness. Health and wellbeing benefits can be part of a long-term company strategy to improve the productivity, engagement and health care of staff and also drive down the amount of days off work sick their employees are taking.
Definitions of workplace health and wellbeing
How to manage sickness absence (PDF 2.5mb)
How to manage health & wellbeing
How to manage workplace stress
Key research on healthcare benefits
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News
Nominet holds wellbeing week
Nominet has held a wellbeing week for employees, which was designed to improve their performance at work by boosting health and fitness levels.
30 Jun The You Company launches workplace wellness system
16 Jun Bupa launches a cycle to work scheme
10 Jun Police Federation members provided with second-opinion service
04 Jun Employee Benefits Summit 2009: Rising stress will damage company productivity
Analysis
Using cognitive behavioural therapy to tackle work-related stress
Work-related stress is a notoriously difficult problem to deal with, but the growing availability of cognitive behavioural therapy means employers may be able to do more to help, says Nicola Sullivan
01 Jun Creating fair absence management systems
27 May News analysis: Employers divided on how to manage swine flu
05 May Dental perks in the recession
08 Apr Getting the most out of absence management systems
08 Apr Employers have a number of options to offer optical or eyecare benefits
Case Studies
Case Study: Unilever extends healthcare to include wellbeing
Last year, Unilever extended its traditional benefits package, which includes private medical insurance, with the launch of a wellbeing programme, Vitality into Action.
05 May Case study: The Health Store
01 Nov Case Study: Runnymede Borough Council switches from PMI to cash plan
01 Nov Case Study: RAF Benevolent Fund tackles workplace stress
01 Nov Case Study: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council fights sickness absence
Research
Many employers lack good data on employee absence
At a time when organisations are looking to cut costs, many are not managing their employee absence rates effectively because of a lack of good data.
01 Jun Research: how legislation is affecting workplace health and wellbeing
01 Jun Research: healthcare costs and calculating return on investment
01 Jun Research: strategies to deal with employee stress
01 Jun Research: impact of health and wellbeing benefits on sickness absence
