You already fund menopause support. Nobody has the map.
Menopause reaches sleep, mood, memory, joints, temperature and confidence at once. NHS guidance recommends hormone therapy for some symptoms, and even when it helps, a prescription does not redesign a shift pattern, cool a packing hall, or make a manager conversation feel safe.
Most large employers already fund real support for the rest. The problem is rarely the provision. It is that each piece lives behind a different door, and nobody has the map.
The gap between funding support and reaching people
One survey of 200 UK HR leaders shows the whole problem on a single page: 79% of employers provide an employee assistance programme, only 27% of employees realise theirs exists, and nearly 85% of employers put its annual use at just 3 to 5%.
Source: HCML, corporate health and wellbeing report, June 2024
The scale of the spend makes that gap expensive. Employee assistance programmes now cover 18.6 million employees, more than half of the UK workforce.
The fix is a map, then a measurement
Two things close the gap. First, one place where an employee can see every support option you already fund and how to reach each one, without asking a manager. Second, a way to learn which of it is known, used and actually helping, answered by the workforce rather than reported by the supplier being assessed.
That second part is what Summ Signal measures. The anonymous pulse asks which of the support you already provide people have actually used, and the employee space lists everything you fund with a rating for each. You learn whether the problem is provision, awareness, or trust, before you spend anything more.