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Increased contributions will affect spending and recruitment Guest Columnist

Increased contributions will affect spending and recruitment

January 20th, 2019 By Theodoros Mantis The social insurance plan and the imminent implementation of the national health scheme (Gesy) are among the most crucial chapters of the state’s social policy. From January 1, there  are be changes to the contributions by employees, the self-employed and the optionally insured to the Social Insurance...
Gesy: a sick system from its inception, private hospitals say Health

Gesy: a sick system from its inception, private hospitals say

January 19th, 2019 THE private hospitals’ association (Pasin) on Friday criticised the government for cultivating “super expectations” among the public on the national health scheme (Gesy) through populism and oversimplifying things. In a press conference, the association called out “the lies” of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) the...
Cyprus has more than 90 GPs per 100,000 inhabitants    Health

Cyprus has more than 90 GPs per 100,000 inhabitants   

January 17th, 2019 Cyprus had 92.3 general medical practitioners for every 100,000 inhabitants in 2016, a new Eurostat report revealed. In most countries the number of doctors increased from the year before, and Cyprus was no exception. The number per 100,000 residents was 86.71 in 2015. In the majority of the 21 EU member states for which data was...
Anastasiades will deal with Nicholson issue at own discretion Health

Anastasiades will deal with Nicholson issue at own discretion

January 11th, 2019 President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday said he would deal at his own discretion with the issue that has risen concerning a possible conflict of interest in the employment of the head of the board of the organisation of state health services (Okpy), Sir David Nicholson. Auditor-general, Odysseas Michaelides, called on Thursday on the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gesy overseers under scrutiny over possible conflict of interest Health

Gesy overseers under scrutiny over possible conflict of interest

December 6th, 2018 By Elias Hazou EXECUTIVES of the organisation tasked with overseeing the administrative and financial autonomy of state hospitals – the stepping stone to the rolling out of the National Health Scheme – were hauled over the coals on Thursday, with one alleged to have cheated on his taxes and another of failing to disclose...
Eighty five new HIV cases diagnosed last year Health

Eighty five new HIV cases diagnosed last year

November 30th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Around 85 new cases of HIV were diagnosed in Cyprus last year but, overall, percentages are at low levels in the country, Health Minister, Constantinos Ioannou said on Friday. In his message to mark the World AIDS Day, marked on December 1, Ioannou said that despite the important actions that have been taken so far...
Health minister’s bigger budget fails to impress   Health

Health minister’s bigger budget fails to impress  

November 13th, 2018 By Elias Hazou Lawmakers on Monday were singularly unimpressed with health minister Constantinos Ioannou’s boast that the ministry’s budget for 2019 was the largest in a decade. Briefing the House finance committee, which needs to sign off on the funds earmarked for next year, Ioannou said the government would be spending...
Our View: Health scheme increasingly over budget, and it hasn’t started yet Opinion

Our View: Health scheme increasingly over budget, and it hasn’t started yet

November 4th, 2018 FOLLOWING the last week’s developments in the national health scheme (Gesy) saga, it is rather difficult to be optimistic about the prospects of its implementation. If anything, it is shaping into a major fiasco, with private doctors threatening not to join, drug importers questioning the budgeting, private hospitals claiming proposed...
Health scheme on track, minister says Health

Health scheme on track, minister says

October 4th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Health Minister, Constantinos Ioannou, on Thursday dismissed as nonsense, claims that state hospitals have collapsed but admitting that problems do exist but were on the way to being resolved though hospital autonomy and implementation of the National Health Scheme (Gesy). “Problems do exist. The autonomy and...
Report suggests higher pay for state doctors who become GPs under Gesy Health

Report suggests higher pay for state doctors who become GPs under Gesy

September 27th, 2018 By Evie Andreou STATE doctors who opt to work as GPs under the national health scheme (Gesy) could see their salaries go up by at least 25 per cent according to a proposal in a report commissioned by the state health service organisation (Okyy) for additional economic benefits and incentives for this group of health...
Pharma companies warns of risks to buying meds in the north   Health

Pharma companies warns of risks to buying meds in the north  

September 6th, 2018 The pharmaceutical companies association (Sfek) warned Thursday medicines sold in the north involved risks for patients, as it voiced concern over a recent government decision to allow people living in the Republic to buy meds from the north for personal use. In a written statement on Thursday, Sfek also defended the high prices of...
Paphos rural communities left without doctor Cyprus

Paphos rural communities left without doctor

August 22nd, 2018 Thirteen rural Paphos communities have been essentially left without a doctor until the end of the month, as the only medic serving the area has gone on holiday and the general hospital cannot replace him due to staff shortages. Some 1,600 inhabitants of Asprogia, Stagos Ayios Photios, Ambelitis, Galataria, Koilineia, Pentalia,...
Our View: Gesy seems to have been reduced to a points-scoring exercise Our View

Our View: Gesy seems to have been reduced to a points-scoring exercise

August 19th, 2018 ROWS about Gesy (national health scheme), involving the government and different interest groups of the health sector, have become a regular feature of public life. A few weeks ago, the Cyprus Medical Association released a report claiming that the remuneration of doctors with private practices that joined the scheme would be extremely...
Doctors creating ‘climate of panic’ over Gesy choices Health

Doctors creating ‘climate of panic’ over Gesy choices

August 16th, 2018 PARENTS will be able to choose their paediatricians and specialists without limitations under the planned national health scheme, or Gesy, the health insurance organisation (Oay) said Thursday, calming fears after a short-lived spat between the health ministry and the island’s paediatrician’s society. On Tuesday, the society had...
New renal unit for Paphos hospital 'on the way but no time-frame yet' Health

New renal unit for Paphos hospital 'on the way but no time-frame yet'

July 26th, 2018 By Bejay Browne Three million euros has been approved by the government to construct a much-needed renal unit at Paphos General Hospital. The decision was confirmed to the Cyprus Mail by Minister of Health, Constantinos Ioannou.  He said that price tag was based on an estimate of preliminary costs. However, the minister was...
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