Employee Benefits | Why cancer demands a benefit rethink

By Kay Needle, Early Intervention & Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits

Cancer represents a huge burden on people, society, business and the economy.

Addressing this, from an employer perspective, involves considering your entire ecosystem of benefits, instead of the traditional route of looking at products in siloes. We need to get much better at investigating where there are opportunities to dovetail benefits, such as treatment via Private Medical Insurance (PMI), with rehabilitation and return to work support via Group Income Protection (GIP), also with cancer support services available as part of some Group Life Assurance propositions.

And the entire programme should include increased focus on cancer screening and prevention, says Professor Gordon Wishart, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Check4Cancer, speaking as a guest of our latest webinar.