Medical inflation, healthcare access and the evolution of insurance, prevention and wellbeing is all impacting the way that leading reward and benefits directors are thinking about healthcare benefits. In this spotlight, REBA explores how the health insurance, group protection and health trust market is moving and its impact on reward and benefits.
REBA’s second report in the workforce strain to workforce strength series, in partnership with Marsh, provides a clear picture of the global pressures reshaping workforce health and how organisations are adapting their health strategies to improve workforce resilience.
Helen Moore, director of reward and benefits at HomeServe, explains how it is matching datasets to help spot critical health trends. This article features in REBA’s Designing global health strategies that improve workforce resilience report, in partnership with Marsh.
AI isn’t here to replace judgement, but it can help organisations to spot previously hidden patterns in claims, absence and engagement data, as Dr Luke James, partner and workforce health leader, Europe at Marsh Health and Benefits, explains.
This column is taken from REBA’s Designing global health strategies that improve workforce resilience, produced with Marsh.
Prevention is at the forefront of employers' minds when it comes to healthcare benefits and was a frequently discussed topic at the REBA Congress 2026. But how do employers create a successful prevention approach that builds resilience?
Writing in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2026, together with AXA Health, Luke Thomas, group reward manager at Grafton Group, explains how its focus on wellbeing is supporting its long-term business sustainability.
The significant rise in chronic illness worldwide is among the biggest risks organisations now face. REBA’s content writer Anna Scott considers how employers should rethink the longevity of their health strategies.
Featured in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2026, together with AXA Health, Lianne Frost, director, global benefits at Warner Music Group, details how it scaled health assessments to its entire UK workforce – and saw 50% engagement in year one.
Writing in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2026, Heather Smith, CEO at AXA Health, explains why people, businesses and the economy will all thrive when wellbeing is truly at the heart of your organisation.
Reward and benefits leaders face growing pressure to deliver wellbeing programmes that are measurable, resilient, and globally relevant. Dana Citron, health and wellbeing director at DHL, has spent her career proving that the workplace is the most powerful arena for public health.
“We’re confident that our focus on prevention has already reduced our claims trajectory,” says Jo Mercer, global benefits, senior manager at Freshfields.
This article, taken from REBA’s Forecasting future health costs: Developing sustainable employer-funded health strategies report, details how a data-led approach to prevention is moving the dial on employee health.
Employers are rethinking their employee value proposition (EVP) and moving towards more harmonised health benefits, said Marc Singh-Jones, head of commercial products and partnerships at Simplyhealth, during REBA's recent webinar.
Carried out across 13 countries spanning five global regions excluding the US, this report surveyed 442 employers and 1,460 employees across a range of industries.
This annual survey of more than 4,500 UK adults finds that 20% of workers took time off sick due to poor mental health caused by stress, the same proportion as the previous year.
Speaking during REBA’s Future of Health & Protection Summit, global pensions and benefits director Pieter Kiveron explains why it is taking a holistic approach to analysing regional healthcare trends to provide local solutions.
REBA’s Future of Health & Protection Summit offered stakeholders from across the reward and benefits industry the opportunity to share knowledge and make valuable contacts.
Pascal Prevost, independent expert in risk management, sits down with REBA’s director and co-founder Debi O’Donovan to discuss how risk management principles can guide employer funded healthcare.
The UK health gap is widening, placing growing pressure on reward and benefits leaders to act not just as administrators, but as architects of workforce health.
