#National health scheme (GESY)

Government hospitals could effectively grind to a halt as of January 1, 2024 because state doctors will have no access to the Gesy (general healthcare system) computer system to order medical tests ...

A total of 943,978 people are now registered on Gesy, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Tuesday. Kanari was speaking at a high-level meeting of the World Health Organisation to mark 15 ...

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Ahepa) announced on Monday plans to open a new university hospital in Nicosia. Once completed, the hospital will fall under the umbrella of Gesy. ...

The Cyprus Oncology Society (Oek) on Wednesday threw its support behind the inclusion of a National Cancer Institute in the health ministry’s 2024 budget. Referring to statements made the previous ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) warned on Tuesday of a recent surge in the sending of false and malicious messages to mobile phones, using the name and logo of national ...

The health ministry presented a budget for 2024 11.6 per cent greater than the year before on Monday, with most of the budget set to be for the government’s contribution to ...

The Turkish Cypriot Federation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (Dev-Is) has begun registering retired Turkish Cypriots who worked in the Republic to the health system Gesy. Dev-Is explained they had been ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari, concerned about the long waiting times for appointments with specialist doctors, met bosses of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) to discuss ways of reducing these. The ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has requested more time to discuss with medical specialist companies to determine whether the referral a patient receives is urgent or not, Health Minister Popi ...

Podiatry services are now included in Gesy for some categories of patients, as of Wednesday. The Pancypriot Association of Registered Podiatrists (Psep) said the move is “proof of the collective ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has placed surgical procedures under a close watch, as reports emerged on Monday of over 90,000 operations carried out in the space of one year within ...

Podiatrists will begin offering their services under the national health scheme (Gesy) on November 1, the health insurance organisation (HIO) announced on Wednesday. According the HIO, podiatrists will offer their services ...

Serious problems have been seen in offering psychological services through the national health scheme (Gesy), the Pan-Cypriot Psychologists Association (Pasypsy) said on Tuesday. Issuing an announcement on world mental health ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) is looking to cut a deal with private insurers on how to divvy up hospital treatment costs, it emerged in parliament on Monday. HIO director ...

Four months after the implementation of an electronic patient satisfaction survey, beneficiaries of the national health service Gesy rated inpatient healthcare services at an impressive 8.8 out of 10. According to a ...

A new patients’ guide website is set to be created, with the aim of helping people better understand Gesy and how to use the system. The guide is the brainchild ...

Hundreds of doctors’ offices in Cyprus have no disability access in their offices, despite an obligation to do so dating back to 2011, the House human rights committee heard on Monday. ...

The Ygia polyclinic in Limassol and the upgraded accident and emergency unit at the Apollonion private hospital are set to move under the Gesy umbrella in the coming weeks. Services ...

Doctors “were not consulted” about the planned extension of afternoon outpatient clinic hours, the doctors and clinical directors branch of civil servants union Pasydy said on Wednesday. Health minister Popi ...

People seeking appointments at medical specialists may soon be split into categories according to how urgent their needs are to help fight waiting times, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on ...

Despite being provided with a free cervical cancer screening, better known as a Pap test, once every two years under the national health scheme, Gesy, only 37.13 per cent of eligible ...

The vast majority of outpatient visits to specialists and personal doctors concerns health professionals in the private sector registered under Gesy, data from the state statistical service showed on Friday. ...

In the end, a feud between two civil servants over a promotion that dates back several years was the reason we found out that a provision of the Gesy law ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari has thrown her support behind a plan to transfer the process of sending patients abroad to the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO). Speaking after a meeting of ...