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...
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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...
Days before Gesy phase 2 both sides say ‘committed’ to finding solutions
Tuesday’s meeting between trade unions representing public-sector healthcare professionals and the state health services (Okypy) did little but kick the can down the road in...
Coronavirus: TC doctors call on GC counterparts for more cooperation
The head of Turkish Cypriot doctors association said they were still waiting for a response from their Greek Cypriot counterparts to their call for cooperation...
Coronavirus: process begins to reschedule cancelled ops
Patients whose appointments were cancelled at state hospitals due to the pandemic can re-schedule them in the private sector, the spokesman of the state health...
Coronavirus: state doctors say pay cuts would be an insult to people risking their lives
State doctors said on Saturday that any new pay cuts imposed on healthcare workers would be an insult given what they are enduring during the...
Coronavirus: patients fearful of visiting doctors
PEOPLE are fearful of visiting doctors amid the Covid-19 pandemic and this could lead to further loss of life, the president of the private doctors’...
Coronavirus: Paphos mayor threatens to name and shame unscrupulous doctors
The mayor of Paphos has called out an alleged practice by doctors in Paphos who he said were issuing fake sick notes so that employees...
Coronavirus: 128 private doctors volunteer their services
In total, 128 private doctors have so far answered to the government’s call to offer their services in support of the state sector as part...
Some Gesy doctors are potential tax cheats, inland revenue boss says
Doctors enrolled with the national health scheme (Gesy) may be engaging in tax avoidance by exploiting a loophole in the law, while over 100 physicians...
