Patients’ right advocates call for purge of Gesy waiting lists
PATIENTS’ rights advocates on Friday called on the state health services organisation (Okypy) to update waiting lists as many of the people had already been...
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State doctors urge action on understaffing ahead of Gesy
State doctors – members of civil servants’ union Pasydy – called on the government on Wednesday to keep its promise and solve existing problems...
Government gives in to some teacher demands (updated)
With just days left to the start of the new school year, the government on Tuesday recoiled from a confrontation with state teachers, conceding a...
Waiting lists still too long, patients’ advocates say
The association for patients has sent the health minister a lengthy memorandum outlining 26 issues that need to be addressed urgently before the introduction of...
Shocking revelations over workings at Nicosia hospital
Staff at Nicosia general hospital are tampering with waiting lists and are refusing to use the hospital’s €43m software system, while one intensive care unit...
Health ministry says waiting lists have shrunk
The quality of patient care in Cyprus has improved over the past two years, general secretary of the health ministry Christina Yiannaki said on Monday,...
Some 22,000 patients to be outsourced to private sector by end of 2017
Around 22,000 patients will be outsourced to the private sector by the end of the year as part of a major project to reduce hospital...
Plan to reduce waiting lists begins on Monday
Servicing the more than 19,000 patients registered waiting lists, will begin on Monday, Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis said on Thursday. Speaking after a meeting with...
Furious Pamboridis tells doctors: you are not above the law
By Evie Andreou and Annette Chrysostomos Furious Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis on Monday told state doctors they were not above the law as his ministry...
System put in place to shorten hospital waiting lists
By George Psyllides The health ministry is cutting waiting lists short pending the implementation of the NHS by referring patients to the private sector through...
Ministry making inroads on MRI waiting list
Around one quarter of the more than 13,000 patients waiting in line for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the public health sector, have already been...
Waiting lists: healthcare’s blind spot
By Andria Kades When 80-year-old Frixos Yiakoumis noticed that his vision was beginning to deteriorate in his right eye he sensibly visited a doctor. After...
Delayed operations to be subsidised by health ministry
By Constantinos Psillides THE government has set aside €761,000 to subsidise operations for certain patients who have been on waiting lists for more than six...