#National health scheme (GESY)

The Council of Ministers on Wednesday approved a bill providing the first legal framework for palliative care in Cyprus. “This initiative fills a significant legislative gap and ensures that patients ...

Six years after its launch, the national health scheme Gesy is here to stay, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Sunday, describing the system as the biggest reform in the ...

In its six years of operation, Cyprus’ national health system, Gesy, has registered over a million beneficiaries and logged more than 21 million visits to general practitioners and roughly the same ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool is being developed to monitor the vast amount of data recorded in Cyprus’ national health scheme (Gesy), aiming to expose potential fraud, misuse, or ...

Cyprus must invest in a healthcare system that can respond in real time to emerging challenges, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Thursday, at the Cyprus diaspora forum. Speaking at ...

A deadline of May 15 has been set for hospital dispensaries to process specialised drug prescriptions not registered in the Gesy online system. Up until now doctors could issue these prescriptions ...

The malfunction of the national health system (Gesy) software is “a long-standing and unacceptable phenomenon”, the Medical Association said on Tuesday, adding that tweaks have proved to be “sloppy and ...

The House on Thursday passed a law allowing only doctors enrolled with the general health system (Gesy) to issue prescriptions for medicines covered by the system. The law – a government ...

A bill amending the law on Gesy was approved on Wednesday by the cabinet and is to be sent by the health ministry to parliament as ‘urgent’ for immediate voting. ...

Dozens of patients suffering from diabetes found themselves unable to access their medications due to a double failure of the health services’ online system which continues to be unreliable for ...

Private rehabilitation centres on Wednesday expressed serious concern over a bill regulating the operation of the centres, saying that proposed legislation in practice equates them with nursing homes and may ...

A landmark ruling by the administrative court in Nicosia, it emerged on Thursday, has overturned a previous decision by the health insurance organisation (OAY), allowing a patient to obtain medication ...

The pending retirement of the health ministry permanent secretary has put a system to send eligible patients and carers overseas for treatment in jeopardy, it emerged on Friday. For treatments ...

State health services Okypy is seeking to recoup millions of euros of losses incurred from services to non-Gesy patients through a revised pricelist, it said on Friday. The costs of ...

The struggle to regulate Gesy goes on – but the health system is like a moving target, defying any attempt to control it. The latest initiative is the ‘urgent referral’ system ...

A gynaecologist was fined by the state health services oversight agency for mislabelling C-sections as ‘emergency’ operations and charging a higher billing fee accordingly. The health insurance organisation (HIO) was ...

Civil servants’ trade union Pasydy on Wednesday expressed relief after the government agreed to put forward a bill to restore their full access to free healthcare outside Gesy. Following a ...

Criteria set in 2023 for hospitals in the national health system (Gesy) have produced their first results, with a 92 per cent improvement of the quality of services provided, health insurance organisation (...

The Cyprus patients’ federation (Osak) has urged the health ministry to scrap plans for separate laws regulating public and private hospitals. Instead, they are calling for a unified legal framework ...

The Cyprus Radiologists Society (Aek) on Wednesday condemned the decision of the health insurance organization (HIO) to replace radiologists with “other doctors” to perform radiological examinations as of January 2025. In ...

Waiting times for specialist doctors in Cyprus have grown significantly longer over the past year, forcing some patients to endure delays stretching well into late 2025, reports showed on Monday. Despite ...

A new health scandal surfaced on Friday regarding the embezzlement of more than €30 million for neurolysis over a period of two years, with treatments allegedly skyrocketing from 100 per year before ...

Despite progress in healthcare since the advent of Gesy in 2019, a number of gaps remain, particularly in terms of preventative medicine and long-term care, a new report shows. The 170-page ...

Individuals with vitamin D deficiency will be able to obtain supplements through Gesy from pharmacies, the Health Insurance Organisation (Hio) announced on Wednesday. To date, the supplement has been available ...