Tesco | UK's largest employer rolls out huge new employee health and wellbeing benefit

Retail behemoth Tesco, Britain's largest private-sector employer, announced this week that it is set to institute a brand-new initiative aimed at providing its workforce with private healthcare benefits.

The chain will now offer its 310,000 UK staff unlimited virtual appointments with a general practitioner, seven days a week, to prevent having to wait extended periods for NHS appointments.

Workers will have access private GPs, who are able to issue private prescriptions that can be collected at pharmacies on the same day or delivered to the patient’s home.

They will also have access to nutritionists, counsellors, physiotherapists and sleep therapists.