Health support provider Equipsme is offering businesses with 2-20 employees free access to its healthcare plans which include remote GP appointments.
The idea is to offer professional health and wellbeing advice that can be accessed from home by employees of fellow small businesses.
Equipsme has been delivering healthcare support, including online GP, counselling and physiotherapy appointments, to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) for two years.
Managing Director and founder Matthew Reed explains: 鈥淲e鈥檙e an SME. There are tough times ahead for all of us. But we think it鈥檚 up to businesses to now step up with what they鈥檝e got and do what they can. This is what we can do, and we鈥檙e doing it from right now.
鈥淲e鈥檙e offering our company healthcare plans, free until 1 August, after the predicted peak period of the virus. There鈥檚 no obligation to stay on the plan, and businesses can cancel at the end of July without paying us a penny.
鈥淥ver the coming weeks and months people will need to adapt to working remotely, or at least very differently within communities. How we access medical care will need to be different, too. Free and remote GP access could help people keep going – and that鈥檚 ultimately going to help businesses keep going.
鈥淟ooking after your people is always important – and right now it鈥檚 more important than ever. Most small companies value their teams tremendously but don鈥檛 have a dedicated HR department. They will be juggling so many concerns as it is.
鈥淚f someone needs medical advice for a condition but needs to remain self-isolated or needs mental health support to cope with anxiety and stress, we want to help SMEs help their people.鈥�
Under the offer small businesses can get their staff 24/7 remote GP appointments, access to a nurse helpline, stress support and physiotherapy advice – with employees requesting appointments via an app on their smart phone. Employees can also choose to pay individually to add their families to the plan.
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