Health Shield extends cash plan with mental health app

Adam Saville
clock • 2 min read

Thrive app offered via Tailored Health Cash Plan as part of employee support benefit range

Health Shield has launched a ‘clinically effective' mental health app for customers under its Tailored Health Cash Plan, which offers an ‘integrated and bespoke' programme of employer and employee support. The Thrive app helps individuals identify, prevent and self-manage common mental health conditions using CBT and mindfulness techniques alongside activities to help combat stress, anxiety and depression. The move follows a series of mental health and wellbeing services launched by Health Shield over the past 12 months to help employers fund, design and implement a range of employee ...

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