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Expectations around the user experience are driving faster, more innovative approaches to health and wellbeing. REBA's content writer Anna Scott outlines how joined up solutions are supporting better outcomes for all.

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.

Group life insurance is the simplest and most common of the group protection benefits. But, it can suffer from a low profile in the workplace, creating an opportunity for employers and employees to boost the value they get from it. 

“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.

Health benefits need to be data-driven, preventative, and built to last argues REBA’s content director, Jo Gallacher, in her article which features in REBA’s UK Health Gap report one – Benefits governance for employers: Navigating the evolving employer-funded health benefits landscape.

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.

Kim Tolley, EMEA compensation and benefits manager at Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Group explains why containing health costs without compromising care is crucial. This case study is taken from the Benefits governance for employers: Navigating the evolving employer-funded health benefits landscape report, produced in partnership with Mercer Marsh Benefits.