As a membership benefit Dunbartonshire Chamber offer a discounted plan covering 10 different healthcare benefits and services for a small weekly payment, as well as giving access to diagnostic scanning procedures...

Sickness absence is costing UK employers an average of £598 per employee per year
(Source CIPD Absence Management Survey Report 2006)

However, there is a solution.  From as little as £1.10 per employee, per week, you can reduce the risk of these escalating costs with an affordable health plan.

After all, healthy staff makes for a healthy business!

Designed exclusively for Chamber members, Westfield Health’s Chamber Primary Health Plan could help you to:

* Reduce long term absenteeism and related costs
* Improve recruitment and retention of staff
* Provide a valuable employee benefit package
* Reduce your risk of stress and musculoskeletal litigation*
* Complement existing PMI cover

UP TO 100% OF EMPLOYEE HEALTHCARE COSTS COVEREDâ€

With the Chamber Plan, employees will have access to 10 different healthcare benefits and services, including money back towards their everyday healthcare treatments, such as:

* Optical – glasses, contact lenses and sight tests
* Dental – check ups, scale & polish and fillings
* Therapies – physiotherapy, osteopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy
* Consultations

EVEN MORE THAN CASH BENEFITS

As well as valuable cash benefits, employees will also have access to a confidential

24 Hour Freephone Counselling and Advice Line including up to 6 face-to-face counselling sessions, worldwide telephone access, 24/7, to a qualified GP,

MRI, CT and PET scanning facilities, Personal Accident cover, concessionary deals at UK health and fitness clubs and an online A-Z health site.

ACCESS TO SURGERY QUICKLY – FOR JUST AN EXTRA £1.24 PER WEEK

For just an extra £1.24 per employee, per week, you can provide your staff with additional cover for 60 ‘non-urgent’ procedures or conditions such as slipped discs, hernias and varicose veins.  Your staff will have the reassurance that if they are unable to obtain speedy access to treatment through the NHS, they can access surgery quickly through their Surgery Choices cover.  Helping you to get your key staff back to work sooner whilst minimising disruption in the workplace.

COVER FOR KIDS – ONLY 15p PER WEEK

Healthy children can mean a happy workforce too and for just an extra 15p per employee, per week, you can opt to cover your employees’ dependent children, with

For Kids cover.

To find out more about how you and your employees can benefit from this Plan, visit www.westfieldhealth.com/chamber or call 0845 602 1629.

* In conjunction with a robust stress policy and line manager training

† Up to set limits