Future of health

Giving employees the knowledge, tools and access to healthcare supports and enhances a preventative approach to health and wellbeing.

Employers can no longer be bystanders in health and wellbeing says David Hare, chief executive at the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN), as its research highlights that almost two-thirds of 18- to 34-year-olds would be more likely to apply for jobs offering PMI. This article features in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, in partnership with AXA Health.

Vicki Twigg, senior reward manager at telecommunications infrastructure provider CityFibre, details how its focus on cohesion and clarity of healthcare pathways is improving the navigation of services. This case study features in REBA’s The health divide: Access and affordability of employer-funded health benefits report, published in association with Mercer Marsh Benefits.

Maria Dowdeswell, global total reward specialist at engineering consultancy firm Haskoning, details how the inclusion of neurodiversity diagnosis in PMI supports a growing proportion of its workforce and their families.  This case study features in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, published in association with AXA Health.

The need to analyse people risks, as well as people insights, will become vital to demonstrate the business need to invest in workforce health and wellbeing today, says REBA’s director Debi O’Donovan, in her column featured in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, published together with AXA Health.

The Keep Britain Working review has two primary aims. First, to understand what more employers can do to tackle economic inactivity due to ill-health and disability, and second, what the government would need to do to encourage and support people living with ill-health and disabled people back into work.  Drawing on expert opinions from across the reward and employee benefits landscape, REBA’s writer Sam Barrett, takes an in-depth look at the review and what it might mean for employers.