Legal & General Group Protection has partnered with Teladoc Health to launch its new Virtual Clinic, focusing on Teladoc Health’s new Virtual GP and mental health support services.
The new on-demand healthcare services are part of an effort to improve workplace wellbeing, according to Legal & General. They include virtual general practitioners and mental health support, including child mental health consultations and are available to all current and prospective Legal & General group income protection (GIP) members and can supplement any existing client-provided wellness programmes.
The new services sit alongside and complete its current digital health support services as part of the company’s outcomes-focused wellbeing framework, ‘Be Well, Get Better, Be Supported’, unveiled last year.
As part of Legal & General’s Be Well, Get Better, Be Supported framework, L& G claims that these services are a complement to other well-established face-to-face and online services. These include the Be Well Hub, a one-stop-shop for employers that offers access to a variety of wellbeing resources, including signposting, education material, and an HR Communication Toolkit, and the Be Well Helpline, a direct line for employers and intermediaries to vocational clinical specialists, nurses, and
Legal & General Group Protection head of product and proposition James Walker says: “We are delighted to partner with Teladoc Health – a proven and highly-regarded virtual care provider – as part of the evolution of our Be Well, Get Better, Be Supported framework. The Virtual Clinic builds on our existing wellbeing services to provide a comprehensive, personalised and digital framework to help employers support and empower their employees; whether they face short- or long-term conditions, and whether they need physical, psychological or social support – or a combination of these.
“It’s a framework that supports the now well-evidenced, and increasingly popular, view that good work is good for health. And it’s a framework that has flexibility according to client needs built-in: avoiding duplication of services for some; ensuring equity of support for others.”