Aviva updates cancer support for group PMI schemes

Support available via Careology app

Hemma Visavadia
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Aviva has announced it will add two new services to its Optimum and Optimum Referral group private healthcare schemes to better support employees with a cancer diagnosis.

The services have been designed to support the mental wellbeing of employees with cancer through the use of Talking Through Cancer service and Careology app, which will be available for employees on new and renewing healthcare schemes from 1 April 2023. Members can access the additional services at the point of a claim for cancer, to better cope with the diagnosis through a clinical programme of therapy and support available via online, video, telephone or face-to-face for their mental wellbeing. Employees who have made a cancer claim will also be able to monitor and record their symp...

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