Coronavirus: personal doctors have some concerns about logistics of administering jab
Doctors on Tuesday expressed mixed views on the health ministry’s decision to let personal doctors administer the AstraZeneca vaccine to those aged 30 and over,...
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‘Your GP is not your secretary’, HIO tells public
Personal doctors are not ‘secretaries’, the health insurance organisation (HIO) said on Friday and reminded people that Gesy beneficiaries need to visit their personal doctors...
Coronavirus: four patients, two staff at Nicosia cardio ward test positive
Four patients and two health professionals at the Nicosia general hospital’s cardiological ward, including a fully vaccinated doctor, had tested positive for coronavirus, it was...
Doctors slam Okypy for not paying bonuses
Doctors union Pasyky on Monday slammed the state health services (Okypy) for failing to respect the deal reached between the two last year regarding monetary...
A health service at war with itself
The past week saw state health services organisation (Okypy) trading barbs with unions representing government doctors and nurses, the latter accusing the former of haphazardly...
Two-tier Gesy emerging, MPs hear as new potential abuse comes to light
The Audit Office has flagged several contracts made between the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) and private hospitals who joined the national health scheme Gesy. In...
Kidney patients in Famagusta stage protest over lack of doctors
Forty-five kidney patients who receive dialysis at the Famagusta general hospital staged a three-hour demonstration on Wednesday, protesting against the lack of doctors in the...
HIO to cap referrals by personal doctors
The health insurance organisation will limit the number of referrals by personal doctors as part of efforts to promote primary health care, it emerged on...
State health workers on board with expanding working hours
State doctors and nurses on Monday said they were on board with an idea pitched by their union, Pasydy, on expanding the working hours of...
Patients group says state doctors and hospital staff ‘doing whatever they want’
The patients’ association (Osak) on Friday described the treatment they receive from state hospital doctors ‘shameful’, a day after a house health committee heard that...
October deadline for inclusion of other specialties into Gesy still stands, HIO says
October 19, the date on which other specialties were scheduled to join the health system (Gesy) still stands, a senior official said on Friday, as...
‘Doctor billed HIO every five minutes at €1,170 a pop’
The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) appears unable to crack down on shenanigans by physicians who are registered with the national health system, with one doctor...
State doctors reach agreement on incentives with Okypy
State doctors and the national health services (Okypy) have reached an agreement over the monetary incentives to be given to public sector specialists, after consultations...
Discussions go on with doctors on pay incentives
Consultations between states doctors and their employer, state health services organisation Okypy over the monetary incentives to be given to public sector specialists continued on...
State doctors slam Okypy for imposing penalties on them
The state doctors union Pasyki slammed the state health services organisation (Okypy) on Tuesday over their decision to impose penalties on doctors if certain financial...
Nurses set to strike next Wednesday due to delay in new hirings
Nurses in public hospitals island wide are set to strike on Wednesday over understaffing while doctors on Friday demanded further clarifications before they accept a...
Okypy optimistic that talks with doctors and nurses will bear fruit
State health services organisation Okypy, which runs public hospitals, expressed optimism on Thursday that consultations with doctors and nurses would soon bear fruit. Doctors’ unions...
Doctors fail to reach pay agreement for Gesy
State health services organisation Okypy and state doctors’ unions failed to reach an agreement, after over five hours of talk on Tuesday, the organisation said....
Minister optimistic on next step in Gesy but unresolved issues manifold
Monday will usher in the second phase of one of the biggest social reforms seen in Cyprus, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said, as the national...
Coronavirus: doctors told closely monitor use of chloroquine for Covid if patients have heart issues
The health ministry on Thursday called on doctors to closely monitor coronavirus patients who have heart problems and who might have been prescribed the anti-malarial...