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Health Minister Popi Kanari, concerned about the long waiting times for appointments with specialist doctors, met bosses of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) to discuss ways of reducing these. The ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has requested more time to discuss with medical specialist companies to determine whether the referral a patient receives is urgent or not, Health Minister Popi ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has placed surgical procedures under a close watch, as reports emerged on Monday of over 90,000 operations carried out in the space of one year within ...

Podiatrists will begin offering their services under the national health scheme (Gesy) on November 1, the health insurance organisation (HIO) announced on Wednesday. According the HIO, podiatrists will offer their services ...

Serious problems have been seen in offering psychological services through the national health scheme (Gesy), the Pan-Cypriot Psychologists Association (Pasypsy) said on Tuesday. Issuing an announcement on world mental health ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) is looking to cut a deal with private insurers on how to divvy up hospital treatment costs, it emerged in parliament on Monday. HIO director ...

Four months after the implementation of an electronic patient satisfaction survey, beneficiaries of the national health service Gesy rated inpatient healthcare services at an impressive 8.8 out of 10. According to a ...

A new patients’ guide website is set to be created, with the aim of helping people better understand Gesy and how to use the system. The guide is the brainchild ...

Hundreds of doctors’ offices in Cyprus have no disability access in their offices, despite an obligation to do so dating back to 2011, the House human rights committee heard on Monday. ...

The Ygia polyclinic in Limassol and the upgraded accident and emergency unit at the Apollonion private hospital are set to move under the Gesy umbrella in the coming weeks. Services ...

Doctors “were not consulted” about the planned extension of afternoon outpatient clinic hours, the doctors and clinical directors branch of civil servants union Pasydy said on Wednesday. Health minister Popi ...

People seeking appointments at medical specialists may soon be split into categories according to how urgent their needs are to help fight waiting times, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on ...

Despite being provided with a free cervical cancer screening, better known as a Pap test, once every two years under the national health scheme, Gesy, only 37.13 per cent of eligible ...

The vast majority of outpatient visits to specialists and personal doctors concerns health professionals in the private sector registered under Gesy, data from the state statistical service showed on Friday. ...

In the end, a feud between two civil servants over a promotion that dates back several years was the reason we found out that a provision of the Gesy law ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari has thrown her support behind a plan to transfer the process of sending patients abroad to the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO). Speaking after a meeting of ...

But who’s to blame: a demanding patient or a nervous GP? By Elias Hazou The problem of long waiting times to see a specialist in the national health system (...

The government is evaluating a proposal to bring the process of sending patients abroad for treatment under the umbrella of Gesy. According to health ministry spokesman Dimitris Constantinou, the details ...

Patients using public hospitals could potentially face serious problems, as the health insurance organisation (HIO) and state hospital services organisation (Okypy) seem to be at loggerheads over a financial agreement, ...

The 14-point package of confidence building measures (CBMs) reportedly being prepared by President Nikos Christodoulides is “full of traps”, according to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. The authenticity of the ...

September will see a range of changes in the national health care system (Gesy) with the health insurance organisation (HIO) ready to implement several decisions drawn up in recent months, ...

Patients will have a more active role in evaluating services offered through Gesy, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Friday after a Cabinet meeting. The evaluation process is set to ...

The government’s vision for Gesy “is the creation of a new culture where beneficiaries and providers will protect it, for it is property of the Republic’s citizens and ...

In 2021 Cyprus ranked fourth in the EU in terms of the number of practising doctors per capita, according to data just released by Eurostat. In Cyprus the number of licensed ...