Insurers ‘must be involved’ in health changes

Introducing a universal system of health insurance without input from private health insurers will be difficult, newly rebranded Laya Healthcare has warned.

Laya, formerly Quinn Healthcare, and the country’s second largest private health insurer, announced yesterday that it is to create 100 jobs in Cork over the next three years.

The company, which has 450,000 members, employs 343 people at its headquarters in Little Island, Co Cork.