Afternoon hours for state hospitals on table for talks next week
State health services organisation (Okypy) on Friday said they would meet the state doctors’ unions next week to discuss the afternoon operation of state hospitals,...
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A health service at war with itself
The past week saw state health services organisation (Okypy) trading barbs with unions representing government doctors and nurses, the latter accusing the former of haphazardly...
Discussions go on with doctors on pay incentives
Consultations between states doctors and their employer, state health services organisation Okypy over the monetary incentives to be given to public sector specialists continued on...
State doctors slam Okypy for imposing penalties on them
The state doctors union Pasyki slammed the state health services organisation (Okypy) on Tuesday over their decision to impose penalties on doctors if certain financial...
Coronavirus: state doctors call for psychiatric services to restart to help those traumatised by lockdown
State doctors’ union Pasyki said on Monday all psychiatric services needed to restart to help people deal with the stresses and anxieties and other problems...
Coronavirus: hospitals now being stretched to limit, doctors say
State doctors’ union (Pasyki) president Sotiris Koumas on Monday has urgently called on people to remain home as much as they can “as the hospitals’...
‘Shock’ over reported Gesy abuse by doctors
One private-sector cardiologist scrutinised for demanding €407,000 for five months By Evie Andreou State doctors’ union Pasyki expressed bewilderment on Thursday over reports that the...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Dialogue for the sake of dialogue
STATE hospital doctors’ union Pasyki was “forced to stage the three-hour work stoppage on Friday as a cry of anguish,” said the perennially angry union...
Doctors hit back at health minister after bullying allegations at Paphos A&E
WHILE state doctors union Pasyki on Thursday criticised Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou for targeting doctors at the emergency department of Paphos hospital the minister hit...
State doctors want 20 per cent of hospital revenues to close pay gap
State doctor unions started consultations with the state health services organisation (Okypy) suggesting that 20 per cent of gross revenue from hospitals be distributed to...
State GPs threaten to walk out over pay inequality
A group of 16 state doctors have threatened to quit their government jobs after promises of increased pay were not met, their union Pasyki said...
State health services advertise for more doctors
The state health services (Okypy) on Friday announced 35 new vacancies for doctors of various specialisations to work at state hospitals after a strike earlier...
Our View: Time for striking doctors to come up with some suggestions
The 24-hour strike called by government doctors at all the public hospitals’ accident and emergency (A&E) departments on Tuesday was a display in totally meaningless...
A&E doctors strike over staff shortages (updated)
Members of state doctors union Pasyki staged a 24-hour strike at A&E departments island-wide on Tuesday over acute understaffing issues which they say put patients...
A&E doctors to go ahead with strike (updated)
State doctors’ union Pasyki will go ahead with a scheduled 24-hour strike in hospital accident and emergency departments (A&Es) on Tuesday, it announced on Monday....
State doctors say A&E strike still going ahead but they’ll enter dialogue in the meantime
State doctors’ union Pasyki, said on Friday its members who work in accident and emergency departments (A&Es) would go on a 24-hour strike on July...
Gesy is ‘not ideal’ but it’s going ahead, minister says
On the eve of the introduction of the first phase of Gesy on Saturday, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou warned there would be problems as doctors...
Health minister dismisses scaremongering over resignation of state doctors
The national health scheme Gesy will go ahead as scheduled and there is no reason to worry about the resignation of state doctors, Health Minister...
New crisis looms in health sector
By Lizzy Ioannidou A NEW crisis appeared to be rearing its head in the beleaguered health sector on Friday when Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou called...
Report suggests higher pay for state doctors who become GPs under Gesy
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...