Transport group Stagecoach launch heart screening scheme for bus division employees
Employees of transport company Stagecoach will receive free heart screening thanks to the firm’s chief executive and co-founder, Brian Souter.
The transport boss has decided to forego almost a quarter of his pay package deal in order to fund the health scheme for the Stagecoach workers.
Mr Souter didn’t receive a pay rise this year and took home a basic salary of £553,000. However the transport boss is entitled to a performance related bonus of £250,000 which he chose to waive, so as to ensure funding for the heart check project.
Earlier in the year, Mr Souter promised to personally ensure £1 million of the £2 million needed for the scheme which will offer heart screening for employees working in the company’s UK bus department.
A specially equipped double-decker bus is touring the country offering the Stagecoach workers the opportunity to give their heart an MOT for free. The road and rail transport company joined forces with private healthcare firm BMI in order to offer the voluntary screening service.
Stagecoach are aiming to offer the heart screening program to all employees with a minimum of three years of service with the company within the next three to four years.
So far the Healthy Heart Bus project has screened 300 Stagecoach employees.