Health benefits

New and updated

• Date:

  2 June 2025

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Employee benefits research 2025

  Organisations are focused on building employee engagement with their benefits offering, while making sure that the overall package remains competitive as well as affordable. The range of benefits offered remains wide, aiming to provide something for everyone.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Creating an employee health benefits package: Formulating a strategy and approach

  Leading practice guidance discussing how to develop a health strategy focused on what the organisation hopes to achieve from offering a suite of health-related benefits. We also provide an overview of the types of health benefits available.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Creating an employee health benefits package: Engaging a provider

  Leading practice guidance discussing the factors for employers to consider when choosing a health risk benefits provider.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Creating an employee health benefits package: Why invest in employees' health?

  Enhanced by creating five separate guides on creating an employee health benefits package, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide discusses the business case for investing in employee health benefits.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Creating an employee health benefits package: Private medical insurance

  Leading practice guidance discussing how employers can offer and manage private medical insurance - one of the most common health-related benefits.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Creating an employee health benefits package: Income protection and other financial support

  Leading practice guidance discussing what employers should consider when deciding to offer permanent health insurance, critical illness insurance, life assurance and/or cash plans as benefits to employees.

• Date:

  11 July 2023

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  HR & Compliance Centre benefits and allowances survey 2023: Health benefits

  Health and wellbeing benefits remain one of the main elements of any employer's package as they help employees in many different ways. We look at how the provision of such benefits has changed, and which are most popular in 2023.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  EAT rules that implied term prevented dismissal of employee with long-term disability cover

  In Awan v ICTS UK Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an implied term of the contract of employment prohibited the employer from dismissing the employee for medical capability while he was entitled to receive long-term disability benefits.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What is the tax exemption for employer-funded medical treatment?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Cut-off age of 55 for permanent health insurance benefits was age discrimination

  The employer discriminated against an employee by withdrawing his permanent health insurance (PHI) benefits when he reached the age of 55, found the employment tribunal in this age discrimination case.