Simplyhealth grows its Women’s Healthcare Charity Alliance with £150,000 donation

• Health benefits provider, Simplyhealth, continues Alliance for second year to challenge taboos around women’s health and drive meaningful change in the workplace to help employers to better support women’s health.

  
  

• Supported by a £150,000 donation from Simplyhealth to be shared between six women’s health charities, the Alliance will see existing members Bloody Good Period, The Miscarriage Association, and Ovarian Cancer Action join forces with new members Endometriosis UK, Prevent Breast Cancer, and Wellbeing of Women.

  
  

• Together, the charities and Simplyhealth aim to continue to address some of the biggest health issues facing women^*, including fertility, pregnancy, miscarriage, menstruation, menopause, gynaecological conditions and cancer, ultimately increasing awareness and understanding, improving access to healthcare services and reducing stigma.  

  
  

Leading health benefits provider, Simplyhealth, has today announced a £150,000 donation to continue supporting its Women’s Healthcare Charity Alliance. In its second year, Simplyhealth have brought together three existing charities; Bloody Good Period, The Miscarriage Association, and Ovarian Cancer Action, with three new Alliance members; Endometriosis UK, Prevent Breast Cancer, and Wellbeing of Women. Together they aim to challenge taboos associated with women’s health conditions and drive meaningful change for those who identify as requiring women’s health services in the workplace by helping employers to better support women’s health.

Since the Alliance began in 2024, members have met monthly to share research, discuss relevant workplace health issues and identify areas for collaboration. This has included the publication of Simplyhealth’s Comfortable Conversations Guide, free to download for employers and managers, helping employers and managers be more confident in having conversations with employees – specifically around women’s health. This was also supported with a second guide aimed at encouraging everyone to have comfortable conversations with healthcare professionals about the most common women’s healthcare problems.

Simplyhealth continues to expand its product portfolio to help workplaces meet this challenge, recently launching a suite of new services and products for businesses to help make healthcare more simple, affordable and accessible to the whole of the workforce.

Designed to support employers with low-cost and quality health solutions, the new range of products provides flexibility for employers, so they only pay for what they need and includes new bolt-on funding solutions with quick claiming, all underpinned by on-demand access to a range of discounted and self-pay services, such as menopause coaching.

All members also benefit from access to women’s health-focused GP’s and counsellors who can advise on a range of women’s health symptoms and related issues.

The donation from Simplyhealth will enable the charities to continue their important work including:

• Delivering essential period products to those who can’t afford or access them (Bloody Good Period).

  
  

• Launching a new Clinical Specialist Nurse Helpline supporting over 1,200 people living with endometriosis who cannot easily access specialist endometriosis centres (Endometriosis UK).

  
  

• Funding research at the Imperial College London Global Research Hub helping thousands more women to live longer than 10 years following their ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment (Ovarian Cancer Action). 

  
  

• Contributing towards the cost of building the National Breast Imaging Academy, providing more mammograms, more research and more lives saved. It will enable an extra 13,000 patients to be seen each year for breast screening (Prevent Breast Cancer). 

  
  

• Extending and enhancing its direct support services provision, increasing the opening hours of its helpline, live chat, email and messaging services to allow more women and their families experiencing the distress of pregnancy loss aiming to remove barriers to anyone seeking support (The Miscarriage Association).

  
  

• Improving the health and wellbeing of women, girls and babies through research, education and advocacy (Wellbeing of Women).

Simplyhealth will continue to use the Alliance to inform its products and services, to better support workplaces and individuals, taking learnings and insight from the charity partners.

^*Where we refer to women, we recognise that many women's health concerns apply to those assigned female at birth, identify as female or exhibit female biological and/or physiological traits.