National Friendly unveils One Fund cash plan

One Fund provides an annual sum of money that policyholders can spend on a range of core healthcare treatments. These are: dental; optical; POCAH (Physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, and homeopathy); specialist consultations; health screening and counselling. The provider says it has opted to give policyholders as much choice as possible in how they spend their cover, rather than setting limits. It cites two of the most common causes of absence from work, stress and musculoskeletal problems, as examples, in which it says traditional cash plans only cover an initia...