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Flu jabs to start with over-60s as doctors order vaccines

Flu vaccinations for the 2026-2027 winter season will start with people aged 60 and over, as personal doctors in...
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GHS occupational therapy talks postponed again, patients’ group warns

This week's meeting between occupational therapists and Cyprus's Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on bringing the profession into the General...
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Cyprus moves to buy state aircraft for patient transfers abroad

Cyprus is examining plans to buy a state-owned aircraft to fly critically ill patients abroad for treatment, after President...
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Most of Cyprus’s 1,000 gyms are unlicensed, association says

The issue of illegal gyms in Cyprus has resurfaced, prompted in part by a recent Audit Office report, while...
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Precautionary check on anticoagulant drug — what patients should do

Health authorities are carrying out a precautionary check on a specific batch of the anticoagulant Warfant 3mg after reports...
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Remedica recall leaves seven medicines with no available alternative

Seven of the medicines caught in Remedica's recall have no alternative available on the market, the Health Insurance Organisation...
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Seven recalled medicines have no replacement in Cyprus, health authorities say

Seven of the 12 Remedica products hit by a voluntary recall have no alternative available on prescription containing the...
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GHS doctors scramble to switch patient prescriptions after Remedica drug recall

Doctors within Cyprus's General Health System (GHS/GESY) are scrambling to change patients' prescriptions following yesterday's announcement of a mass...
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GHS doctors fined for incomplete patient records, HIO reveals

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) fined two specialist doctors in June after finding incomplete clinical notes and insufficient documentation...
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Patients still paying out of pocket for occupational therapy under GHS

Nearly seven years, two governments, five health ministers, three different directors and two different presidents at the Health Insurance...
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HIO fines three doctors €11,500 over GHS billing breaches

Cyprus's Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) fined three doctors a total of €11,500 last month after inspections found they had...
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Patients stuck waiting, or paying €25, when doctors run out of referrals

Charalambos Papadopoulos, president of the Cyprus Federation of Patient Associations (OSAK), called yesterday for a review of restrictions the...
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GHS patients paying €20-plus drug co-payments for fifth month with no quick fix in sight

Around 10,000 patients — most of them elderly — have been paying more than €20 a month in drug...
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