#National health scheme (GESY)

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) has announced that a new feature enabling the display of a barcode for dispensing prescriptions will come into effect as of Friday, March 27, via the ...

Gesy beneficiaries will be able to use a barcode to collect prescriptions from pharmacies from Friday, removing the need to verbally provide personal details, the health insurance organisation (HIO) said ...

The long-running effort to create a national ambulance agency took a big step forward last month, with the House health committee debating a bill aimed at establishing it. The bill, ...

The Cyprus ADHD Support Association called on authorities on Wednesday to integrate private occupational therapy into the general health system (Gesy), saying the service is a basic therapeutic need for ...

The national health scheme (Gesy) is “one of the most important social achievements in our country and must be continuously evaluated,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Arriving at the ...

The budget of the HIO (Health Insurance Organisation), which administers Gesy, will exceed €2 billion this year. It was unanimously approved by the House on Thursday, although it sparked some minor ...

MPs on Thursday passed the 2026 budget for the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) but still grumbled about the state of public healthcare. The HIO is the agency administering Gesy – the national, ...

Complaints over inadequate care, services and the inappropriate behaviour of health care professionals have prompted the federation of patients’ associations (Osak) to express their concern over the protection of the ...

Gesy is not facing financial problems, chairman of the HIO Stavros Michael said on Monday after meeting in Nicosia with Akel secretary-general Stefanos Stefanou. Michael, whose organisation oversees the running ...

The president of the Cyprus association of private hospitals (Pasin), Marios Karaiskakis, could not hide his anger and frustration with the authorities, speaking about the nursing shortage on state radio ...

The head of the ambulance service delivered a stark warning in parliament on Thursday over what she described as “years of state inaction and underfunding”, as the House health committee ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on Wednesday announced that it has proceeded with its annual adjustment of medication prices, resulting in changes to 291 medications, most of which have increased in ...

MPs on Thursday grumbled but still passed regulations reinstating certain healthcare benefits for civil servants not enjoyed by the broader public. The regulations, tabled by the government, give civil servants – ...

The national healthcare system (Gesy) appears to be secure from a funding aspect, MPs heard on Thursday. The House health committee was discussing the 2026 budget of the Health Insurance Organisation (...

Cyprus operates a mixed healthcare system that combines a universal public scheme — known as the General Healthcare System (GeSY) — with a parallel private healthcare market. Since GeSY became fully operational ...

A warning over the continuing sending of malicious text messages to Gesy beneficiaries was sent by the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on Monday, urging recipients to ignore and delete them ...

Repeated failures of the Gesy IT system this week have raised concern among healthcare providers, with the president of the pharmaceutical association warning that the state should have had a ...

By Dina Gavarieva There’s a lot to worry about in the world right now – rising living costs, global uncertainty and the looming what-if of illness – but here in Cyprus ...

Fraudulent SMS messages posing as alerts from the national health scheme Gesy are urging citizens to click malicious links, police warned on Tuesday. The warning follows multiple reports from people ...

The island is “significantly exposed,” as it does not allocate sufficient resources for social policy towards people with disabilities, according to EU data, the Cyprus paraplegic organisation (Opak) said in ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) has pledged to include new nursing positions in its 2026 budget, Pasydy said on Wednesday. The new posts will cover both general nursing and mental‑...

Organised patient groups on Monday urged MPs to withdraw a draft law on naturopathy and acupuncture, warning that it could harm public health. The Cyprus federation of patients’ association (Osak) ...

Police are investigating a fraud case in which a 66-year-old man in Limassol received a message on Tuesday from a sender claiming to be the national health scheme (Gesy), asking ...

Health officials have issued another warning about fraudulent SMS messages falsely appearing to come from the general health system (Gesy). Gesy urges the public not to open any suspicious links ...