Briefing: Health and Wellbeing Research 2025
This four-page briefing provides key insights from the REBA Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, published in partnership with AXA Health.
If you don’t have time to read the full report, this free download will enable you to read the key findings and actions from the tenth edition of REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, which considers how rising ill-health and costs are setting the stage for health and wellbeing strategy transformation.
Based on research with 284 employers including: Cooper Parry, Intuit, Metro Bank Persimmon, Unilever and Warner Music, this year’s research explores how organisations are evolving their strategies as NHS pressures continue, workforces age, and caring responsibilities – and their impact on employee health – increase.
To stay ahead, employers must not only act but prove their impact. Measuring and forecasting the effect of health interventions on productivity and business performance is fast becoming a defining capability.
This briefing gives you a snapshot of the findings, or dive into the full report for detailed benchmarking data, insights into the fastest-growing health and wellbeing offerings, data measurement trends and practical steps to health.
About the research
Using REBA’s extensive membership, the insight team conducted an online survey between December 2024 and January 2025 to produce the full 48-page Health and Wellbeing Research 2025. The robust methodology uncovered clear future trends and decision-making patterns among the 284 respondents, representing 1.6m employees.
Contributors
Ray Brumwell
Ray has been with leading digital transformation organisation Sopra Steria for 27 years. Having worked in various roles within human resources (payroll, resourcing, management information and reward), Ray is now senior subject-matter expert for employee benefits, pensions and share plans.
Maria Dowdeswell
Maria has been global total reward specialist for Haskoning – an independent consulting engineering company – since September 2023. Maria’s key responsibilities include managing the UK employee value proposition, overseeing EU Pay Transparency Directive reporting, and coordinating global reward projects. Maria previously worked in reward roles at organisations including Browne Jacobson, Coloplast and Caterpillar.
Sandra Dyball
Sandra has been director, global health, wellbeing and benefits, for the international energy services and solutions company Centrica since October 2019. Sandra’s responsibilities include driving a multi-year initiative focused on personalised support, education and streamlining of wellbeing benefits. She aims to make wellbeing accessible for all colleagues, while adapting to the ever-changing demands of the business and workforce.
David Hare MBE
David joined the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) in 2014 as chief executive and in that time has built the single representative body across the UK private healthcare industry – consolidating industry representation and growing membership from just over 20 members to 100 today. David regularly contributes to the policy debate about the role of private healthcare in the media and was awarded an MBE in the 2023 New Year’s Honours for services to healthcare, particularly during Covid.
Sharon Midwinter
Sharon has been head of benefits and wellbeing for NatWest since 2022. Her current responsibilities include overseeing the strategy and operations of the extensive wellbeing and benefits proposition at NatWest. Sharon has a background as a pensions actuary and completed a masters in psychology during the pandemic. Together, these topics have fuelled her interest in data and behaviours, and how to help people make good decisions.
Debi O'Donovan
I’m Debi and I co-founded REBA in 2015, where I am a director. I enjoy sharing insights, data and information about employee benefits and pay via articles, research, guides and videos because I believe it helps so many employees receive better reward packages than they would if REBA didn’t distribute this knowledge. REBA has a great community and it makes my work fun to talk to the wide variety of people working in reward and benefits through our events, both large and small.
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Sacha Romanovitch OBE
Sacha works with businesses, government, policymakers and the voluntary sector to address key systemic challenges and opportunities, such as financial inclusion, mental health, transition to work and inclusive growth. Most recently, she chaired the Health Foundation’s Commission for Healthier Working Lives, which aimed to build a consensus for the action needed by government and employers to meet working-age health challenges.
Heather Smith
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