Music to the ears of Finance Directors

Medicash, one of the UK's leading health insurers, has designed two new and unique healthcare products specifically for the corporate market, which will serve as affordable but perceived high value employee benefits for the corporate market.

Medicash Reward and Medicash First have been designed to offer lifestyle benefits that can be used to promote members' good health and wellbeing.

The flexible plans result from extensive market research among employers over the last 12 months and have been tailor-made to enhance the health of the company as well as its employees.

Starting at just £10 per employee per month, Medicash Reward is a company paid for positive action plan that employers can use to help ensure the health of their workforce and improve their working and personal lives. This makes it the ideal employee benefit for companies tackling issues like absence or struggling with the recruitment and retention of staff. It includes:

• Valuable payments of up to £150 towards the costs of dental and optical treatments so employees can afford regular checkups and treatments
• A voucher for a health-screening test, which aims to spot potential healthcare problems in employees and motivate them to take responsibility for staying healthy
• Payment of up to £400 towards professional healthcare treatments such as physiotherapy, reflexology, osteopathy and acupuncture, which help to relieve the symptoms caused by stress, recurring illness and muscular pain - the second most significant cause of absence after minor illness
• A stress helpline and up to six sessions of face-to-face stress counselling to help reduce the estimated 13.4 million days a year lost to the problem
• Discounted membership at UK health and fitness clubs such as Fitness First and LA Fitness so employees can stay fit and, by doing so, maintain good health.