Health Minister Mary Harney has appointed Mr Seamus Creedon and Ms Celine Fitzgerald to the Board of Vhi Healthcare for a five-year period effective from February 22, it was announced today.

THE three-member group appointed by Health Minister Mary Harney last January to carry out a business appraisal of the private medical insurance market in Ireland, otherwise known as the Barrington Report, are:

THE Government has appointed an expert group to review the profitability of the health insurance market in Ireland.

An expert group was appointed to review the health-insurance industry in Ireland following BUPA’s decision to exit the market, it was confirmed today.