Mindfulness app benefits eye and hearing health professionals

MORE than 10,000 professionals across the eye and hearing health sectors are benefiting from free access to a mindfulness app.

Specsavers has offered a free subscription to Headspace app for all colleagues for more than two years from community practices to support offices and manufacturing and distribution sites, with thousands of people regularly benefiting from it. It also provides subscriptions to family and friends of colleagues.

‘We are so pleased that Headspace is helping our colleagues across Specsavers. Their wellbeing matters to us and this app is just one of the ways that we support our teams across the organisation,’ says Steven Evans, head of wellbeing and inclusion at Specsavers.

‘Since we first offered the free subscription to the app, there has been more than 10 million minutes of usage. Around one in five of our colleagues have signed up and are using it regularly, with 54% of the usage around sleep related content. Of course, there is a lot more content available on a wide range of topics to support colleagues.’