Aviva to roll out D&I-focused healthcare benefits

Available next year

Hemma Visavadia
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Aviva has announced a new set of healthcare benefits for its group private medical insurance customers designed to offer a more inclusive and diverse health service for employees.

The four main benefit options include an improved gender identity benefit, family planning and fertility cover as well as a new menopause service and neurodevelopmental pathway. The updated services will be available for employers with Aviva's Optimum or Optimum Referral healthcare schemes. Gender identity support will be available to large corporate clients starting 1 January 2023. It provides quicker access to gender specialists, hormone initiation and onward referral for surgical and non-surgical interventions that support gender transition. Cover specific to gender identity inc...

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