We have 250 employees and introduced a health care cash plan as part of our benefits programme this year. unfortunately we had very low up take (likely due to a lack of promotion from our side) so we are pushing this a little more with our new joiners who can select this as part of their onboarding. We've seen a few more people selecting this and will be interesting to see how many choose this during our next annual enrolment.

We introduced the same thing in another company I was at and it was very well received, with the biggest selling point being that it covered PMI excess

Our current provider is Simplyhealth and they provide a number of different levels of cover

Hi Donna

We use Healthshield - and we pay for all our employees to have membership at the basic level. They can then top up and add on family members at their own cost. I think it is about six pounds a head a month for us to supply. In terms of take up - it varies across the company. Claiming back was a barrier when they had to fill in a form and send off receipts but since it has all gone online then it has improved

thanks

Rachel

We set up a SimplyHealth scheme in September, paying the 'level 1' cost for all staff who opt in and the take up has been very good - I'd been aiming for 50% and I think it's actually quite a bit higher (we are a school with a similar headcount to you). The scheme is a cash-plan, and covers telephone and in-person counselling as well as the other more standard items. It's been very well received.

I went directly to SimplyHealth and then also appointed a consultancy to review the market for me, figuring they'd get a better price. It turned out that wasn't the case, and the costs I was getting directly seemed to be less.