#National health scheme (GESY)

The Gesy law prohibits private doctors treating Gesy patients in hospitals that are contracted to the HIO (Health Insurance Organisation). This had always been the case, even though the HIO ...

Although the national health system faces many challenges it must be preserved at all costs, the new head of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Thursday but he sounded ...

Private doctors with practices within hospital contracted with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) had their request to maintain the status quo rejected by a court on Thursday. The move was ...

Stakeholders in the healthcare sector on Tuesday repeated concerns over the formation of an oligopoly but some also stressed that such fears – however valid – should not go to the other ...

Auditor general Odysseas Michaelides slammed the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on Tuesday, accusing it of trying to enact a multi-insurance Gesy through the back door. In a tweet, the audit ...

The Health Insurance Organisation – the agency running the national health system or Gesy – was on Monday expected to receive instructions to give a three-day grace period to those doctors who ...

The state health services (Okypy) has vowed significant spending on the national health service Gesy with a projected €250 million for 2022-2024, while also acknowledging complaints and the need to constantly ...

Oxygen supplies for patients needing home oxygen therapy will only be available on prescription through Gesy’s IT system from January 1, 2023, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said in a statement ...

The new head of the embattled Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Monday they are committed to tackling all outstanding issues affecting the agency, beginning with their budget for fiscal ...

Personal doctors (GPs) and patients have hit out against the trimming of the number of referrals to specialists within the healthcare system, following changes made earlier this year to crackdown ...

WE doubt any other subject has been given as much time by the legislature’s committees as talking about Gesy and its related bodies, state medical services Okypy which runs ...

Members of the Pancyprian association of physiotherapists began a two-hour strike at 9am on Friday to protest that agreements made with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) have not been implemented. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has accepted “with regret” Thomas Antoniou’s resignation as chairman of the health insurance organisation (HIO). The development on Wednesday finally came weeks after Antoniou had offered ...

Secretary of the Cypriot Heart Patients’ Association, Stelios Christodoulou, has called on the Ministry of Health to speed up approval for induction into Gesy of a new life-saving drug treatment ...

Until a few months ago, most people were unaware that there was a commissioner for the supervision of Gesy. Those that follow the news, would have found out about his ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Sunday defended expenditure by his ministry after a public spat with the health insurance organisation (HIO) from whom it is claiming back €120 million for using ...

The finance ministry on Friday waded into a spat between the health insurance organisation (HIO) and the health ministry, accusing the Gesy operator of taking the health system to the ...

Chairman of the health insurance organisation (HIO) Thomas Antoniou published a letter on Wednesday evening confirming his resignation from the post as he condemned the constant and unprovoked attacks on ...

The committee charged with investigating potential conflict of interest among public officials said on Tuesday that it will look into the participation of the president and other members of the ...

In the end, public outcry and intense pressure from all directions worked. The appointment of the President of Cyprus Medical Association, Dr Petros Agathangelou to the board of the Health ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday withdrew its proposal for the appointment of Dr Petros Agathangelou, the president of the Cyprus Medical Association, to the board of the Health ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is considering “all options” amid an escalating row over cabinet’s decision to appoint the head of the Cyprus medical association to the HIO board, government spokesman ...

Shocking lack of access to and information about abortion and contraception In late June, millions of American women saw their constitutional right to abortion removed overnight after the Supreme Court ...

Patients on Friday threatened to take measures if the appointment of head of the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) to the board of the HIO, which oversees the running of Gesy, ...