A Health Plan for your Staff

The Institute supports the fundamental principles of the NHS - treatment free at the point of need - but recognises that inevitably many items of associated health expenditure can cause real concern to NHS staff. The Institute in Scotland has recently reviewed the services offered by Leeds Hospital Fund Ltd and can commend it to senior managers and their employing authority for serious consideration. Do you want a sound retention and recruitment tool which provides a streamlined package of health related cash benefits for your staff and their families? If so, Leeds Hospital Fund's informative brochure is well worth a look.

This long established and non-profit making company markets a staff health plan and a wide range of individual cash benefits which can bring peace of mind for those major expenditures involved in hospital stay, dental, optical treatment etc. It also offers many other associated benefits. In addition, as it is offered to public sector employers through a group payroll deduction scheme its overheads are absolutely minimal: thus ensuring that participants income is returned almost in its entirety to contributors and not swallowed up in expensive administration costs.

Costing just over £2.00 per staff member per week, an employing authority can demonstrate how it values its staff by offering group participation in this excellent scheme. It appears a subject well worth airing within the local Partnership Forums.

For further information please contact Norma Stacey - 0113 234 0813 for the explanatory brochure or visit their website - www.lhfhealthplan.org.uk

As we seek to encourage the retention and recruitment of staff, this scheme has much to commend it.

Donald McNeill
Secretary
IHM Scotland
11 September 2001