Laya Healthcare will release ConnectCare (€990 per adult, €354.32 per student/child) on 9 August 2013.

This plan provides cover for a semi-private room in a public hospital, a semi-private room in a private hospital (including the Beacon Hospital) with a €50 excess per claim and day case and cardiac cover in the Blackrock Clinic and the Mater Private with a €175 excess per claim.

There is a maternity accommodation grant of €3,500. There are also significant outpatient benefits such as 50% back of the costs of visits to a GP, physiotherapist or alternative practitioner, with an individual outpatient excess of €1 per year.

This plan is available to all new and renewing customers from 9 August 2013.