Invitation-only summit, Navigating employer-funded healthcare for multinational employees:
opportunities, challenges and solutions for 2025 and beyond.
Why does REBA run the Summit?
The Future of Health and Protection Summit is designed to empower multinational reward and benefits directors with the insights, knowledge and data they need to make informed decisions and secure board-level buy-in for strategic investment in health and insurance benefits.
This employer-focused, invitation-only event brings together reward and benefits leaders with multinational responsibility to examine current and future challenges and the emerging solutions to mitigate rising people risks to business and benefits budgets.
Context: The shifting healthcare landscape
As employers continue to see their employer-funded healthcare costs increasing due to high medical trend rates globally, at the same time, an ageing workforce and a declining healthy life expectancy means the rise in expensive to treat long-term health conditions in the workplace will continue to rise for all employers.
This event was so relevant; I learnt a lot and it really got me thinking when my thinking on this subject had really been stuck in a rut!
In the face of these health and cost pressures and the workforce risks coming down the line, employer-funded healthcare is no longer a nice to have but has become integral to the bottom line. It also means the ecosystem must continue to evolve and shift to enable international organisations to meet both employee demand and mitigate gaps left by state-funded healthcare.
We’re seeing a rebalancing in the health and insurance market and a rise in the use of specialised private medical services, such a telemedicine, menopause support, physiotherapy or health screening, unbundled from insurance, captives or pooling arrangements. Whether buying standalone services directly, through a captive, insurer or platform provider, employers are looking at the cost to value ratio and cherry-picking the private medical services most needed for their workforce profile.
Employers are also focusing in on robust outcome measures to better control costs and reduce people risk to the business. Data is key to this, but it’s not about more data, it’s about the right data. And while getting precise clinical outcome data is complex and difficult, this Summit will help multinational reward and benefits leaders to increase their knowledge of how the clinical side of the market works so they can more confidently build a clearer picture on return on spend on private health benefits and the business case for ongoing investment.
To reflect the success of the event, the Summit is moving to a new venue, County Hall on London’s Southbank.
Key themes and topics for discussion
- Global health trends and risks: what’s coming down the line and what this will mean for employers
- Cost control strategies: understanding claims drivers and conditions to help employers plan budgets and healthcare strategies
- Addressing data challenges: using data and analytics more effectively to inform and improve plans and define clear outcomes and metrics to measure against to improve health outcomes
- The different financing options – trusts, captives, multi-employer or multi-national pooling: Understanding which funding mechanisms will work best for your organisation
- Medical advances and the future of healthcare: How emerging technologies, treatments and medical advances are shifting clinical journeys and the impact on global medical trends rate and insurance premiums
- Prevention and rehabilitation: Strategies to proactively manage and mitigate rising healthcare costs
- Meeting ESG and DEI objectives: identifying opportunities to leverage ESG and DEI components to improve access to premium health services for all employees
- AI and digital tools: and their transformative role in shifting clinical pathways
I came away from the day with some great insights, and a lot of food for thought. I will be taking some of this into my upcoming renewal conversations.
Who will attend?
Providing opportunities to network with peers and tap into latest thinking, insights and data, this strategic level Summit is designed to support reward and benefits leaders with international responsibility and help them to navigate and manage the costs and complexities of providing employer-funded health benefits for a multinational workforce.
By creating an invitation-only event, we can ensure everyone in attendance is facing similar challenges
and can connect with those in their community to find the answers they need.
Key stakeholders will be personally invited to add their invaluable perspective and insights into the future of workplace health and protection insurances. These stakeholders include:
- Strategy and proposition leaders from insurance providers
- Key insurance consultants and intermediaries
- Senior reward and benefit leaders with buying responsibilities from mega, large and medium employers with both a UK and a global remit
- Industry commentators and influencers
2024 sponsors
These organisations supported the 2024 Summit, bringing their wide range of skills and expertise. Details of the 2025 sponsors will be posted here soon.
If you're interested in sponsorship, please contact Phil Hayne or Suzanne Saunders.
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