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The government is recklessly playing with your healthcare Letters

The government is recklessly playing with your healthcare

January 13th, 2019 I'm a GP resident in Cyprus currently training towards my specialisation and since the general public is not aware about what's going on regarding the national health scheme I would like to ask you to please post this. In order for the new health scheme (Gesy) to start functioning in Cyprus the government is trying to fill the places...
Private-hospital group says joining Gesy akin to ‘jumping into the abyss’ Health

Private-hospital group says joining Gesy akin to ‘jumping into the abyss’

January 12th, 2019 The association of private hospitals (Pasin) announced on Saturday that joining the proposed National Health Scheme (Gesy) would be like “jumping into the abyss”, after the group’s spokesman, who had said they were ready to enter into dialogue with the government for their participation in the scheme, resigned on Friday. Pasin,...
Gesy doctors will make €135,000-€160,000 a year, HIO says Health

Gesy doctors will make €135,000-€160,000 a year, HIO says

January 11th, 2019 The proposals tabled by the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) satisfy to a very large extent the demands made by Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) with regards the National Health Scheme (Gesy), the HIO announced on Friday, despite the association’s opposing claims. The HIO expressed its “surprise regarding CyMA’s announcement...
Medical profession being scrutinised to root out tax cheats Health

Medical profession being scrutinised to root out tax cheats

January 11th, 2019 Tax commissioner, Yiannis Tsangaris, on Friday said his department has made numerous tax audits on doctors and there have been many cases where large amounts in additional tax have been enforced. Following a debate on the income of private doctors after disagreements between the medical association and the government concerning the...
Medical association calls on members not to join Gesy Cyprus

Medical association calls on members not to join Gesy

January 11th, 2019 The Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) has decided to call on its members not to join the national health scheme (Gesy), a decision which is widely seen to be critical to the scheme’s future. They said the plan “poses serious risks to the quality of health care and patient safety”. In a statement, they explained they had set...
Private doctors in late-night talks on Gesy Health

Private doctors in late-night talks on Gesy

January 10th, 2019 Private doctors belonging to the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) were on Thursday evening meeting to discuss whether they would be joining the national health scheme, with their final decision seen as critical to the scheme’s future. Their gathering began at 7.30pm and was expected to last beyond midnight. The association...
Audit boss: Gesy overseer must go (Updated) Cyprus

Audit boss: Gesy overseer must go (Updated)

January 10th, 2019 By Elis Hazou and George Psyllides THE auditor-general is calling on the cabinet to examine, as a matter of urgency, the possibility of a conflict of interest in the employment of a senior health official overseeing the implementation of the national health system (Gesy), it emerged on Thursday. In an urgent letter, Odysseas...
Gesy: differences remain but discussions to intensify Health

Gesy: differences remain but discussions to intensify

January 8th, 2019 The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) and the medical societies agreed on Tuesday to enter an intensive dialogue in an effort to bridge differences on the implementation of the National Health Scheme (Gesy). During a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades and Health Minister Constantinos...
Gesy discussions with medical association enters second day Health

Gesy discussions with medical association enters second day

January 8th, 2019 The Cyprus Medical Association was meeting early Tuesday (CyMA) with President Nicos Anastasiades and Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou to discuss the national health scheme Gesy. Representatives of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) were also at the meeting. Ioannou said after Monday’s meeting with CyMA that it was...
President to meet doctors again tomorrow Health

President to meet doctors again tomorrow

January 7th, 2019 PRESIDENT Anastasiades and the leadership of the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) met on Monday to discuss the refusal of many private doctors to join the national health scheme, Gesy, and agreed to meet again on Tuesday morning. Health minister Constantinos Ioannou and ministry officials attended the two-hour meeting, from which the...
Gesy timetable must be respected by all says spokesman Cyprus

Gesy timetable must be respected by all says spokesman

January 6th, 2019 The timetable for the introduction of the national health scheme (Gesy) must be respected by all, Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Sunday. He was speaking one day ahead of a meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA), who would air there problems with Gesy, “And we will see...
Our View: Gesy shows how compromise alien to our culture Our View

Our View: Gesy shows how compromise alien to our culture

January 6th, 2019 In the past, it may have been said the introduction of a universal healthcare system, which governments have been toying with since the nineties, was as likely as a Cyprus settlement. Although we have entered the final straight for the implementation of the national health scheme (Gesy), as we have done on several occasions with a...
President to reiterate determination to forge ahead with Gesy Cyprus

President to reiterate determination to forge ahead with Gesy

January 5th, 2019 In a meeting with the Pancyprian Medical Association on Monday, President Nicos Anastasiades will reiterate his determination to implement the national health scheme Gesy on the basis of unanimous decisions. In a post on Twitter, Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromos said that “at a meeting with CyMA on Monday, President...
Anastasiades: Gesy is a one-way street Health

Anastasiades: Gesy is a one-way street

January 4th, 2019 By Peter Michael and Annette Chrysostomou THE national health scheme (Gesy) is a one-way street, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday amid claims from the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) that the public dialogue was being poisoned to smear private doctors, and as the number of specialists’ societies rose from eight to...
Medical association to meet Anastasiades, denies it's behind ongoing rebellion Health

Medical association to meet Anastasiades, denies it's behind ongoing rebellion

January 4th, 2019 PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades is to meet with the medical association (CyMA) next week as private rheumatologists and intensivists, following six other medical specialities, said on Thursday they would too not back the National Health scheme (Gesy). With the starting date for submission for applications by private doctors who would...
President says Gesy will go ahead as planned Cyprus

President says Gesy will go ahead as planned

December 31st, 2018 The national health scheme (Gesy) will go ahead as planned with the first phase introduced on June 1, 2019, President Nicos Anastasiades said. In an interview with Phileleftheros published on Monday, Anastasiades said no complaint would cancel or postpone its introduction. Five groups of specialist doctors have already said they...
MPs concerned with number of private doctors opting out of Gesy Health

MPs concerned with number of private doctors opting out of Gesy

December 28th, 2018 The House health committee on Friday expressed concerns after the Cyprus Society of Nuclear Medicine became the fifth group of private specialist doctors to announce they would not participate in the National Health Scheme (Gesy). The head of the committee, Disy’s Costas Constantinou, said that they were monitoring developments and...
ENT doctors join Gesy opt-outs Health

ENT doctors join Gesy opt-outs

December 27th, 2018 EAR, nose and throat (ENT) doctors of the private sector said on Thursday they do not intend to join the national health scheme, joining the ranks of several other private practices who have decided to opt out. In a statement, the Cyprus Society of Otorhinolaryngology called on its members not to register with the national health...
Anaesthesiologists say they were excluded from Gesy Cyprus

Anaesthesiologists say they were excluded from Gesy

December 24th, 2018 The anesthesiological society said Monday it has been excluded from discussions on the national health scheme (Gesy), which is meant to be rolled out in 2019. In a statement, the society said it has been waiting since 2012 to be briefed about Gesy, but has never received an invitation to hear how it “will affect our patients, the...
State doctors sign revised deal for on-call payments Health

State doctors sign revised deal for on-call payments

December 21st, 2018 Health Minister, Constantinos Ioannou and state doctors’ unions Pasyki, Pasydi and Pasesi, signed on Friday a revised agreement for on-call payment. This was the final provision of the agreement signed by the unions and former Health Minister, Giorgos Pamboridis, last year, in the presence of President Nicos Anastasiades. It...
Private doctors continue to bail on Gesy citing 'more questions than answers' Health

Private doctors continue to bail on Gesy citing 'more questions than answers'

December 21st, 2018 ENDOCRINOLOGISTS announced on Friday that they would not be joining the National Health Scheme (Gesy) which is to be launched next summer, citing a deficient budget that would lead to low-quality health services, while cardiologists, despite not being fully on board, said each would decide for themselves. The announcements by the two...
Our View: Accusing doctors of tax evasion not the way to see Gesy implemented Our View

Our View: Accusing doctors of tax evasion not the way to see Gesy implemented

December 19th, 2018 President Anastasiades fired a broadside against doctors who were refusing to join the national health scheme (Gesy) in an interview with Omega TV on Monday night, resorting to the type of sweeping generalisation and moralising that is used on social media. We would have expected the President of the Republic to show a little restraint...
‘Not all doctors are dishonest’ medical association says Cyprus

‘Not all doctors are dishonest’ medical association says

December 18th, 2018 Not all doctors are dishonest and under-declare their income to the taxman, while those who do should be found and penalised under the law, the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) said on Tuesday. CyMA was responding to a call by President Nicos Anastasiades for doctors to submit their tax returns for the past seven...
Paediatric society rejects Gesy Cyprus

Paediatric society rejects Gesy

December 17th, 2018 The island’s paediatric society said it will not be participating in the national health scheme (Gesy) under the current circumstances, disputing the plan’s viability and functionality. In a statement following a general assembly on Saturday, the society expressed concerns over the proposed scheme’s viability, functionality, and...
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