Health & wellbeing

Preventative healthcare is gathering increasing momentum as a way of supporting employees and saving money.

With many health conditions remaining undiagnosed for years, forward-thinking employers are looking at embedding prevention and screening into their health strategies.

Employee assistance programmes (EAP) have become a familiar component of many workplace benefits packages – either embedded within a core employee benefit such as private medical insurance, a cash plan or group risk policies or offered as a stand-alone benefit. Offering one, however, is not the same as having a strategy.

Toothfairy’s Matt Johnson says when it comes to renewing benefits offerings, there’s a wrong way and a right way.