NHS Scotland

It was not only former ND MEP Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou, who in the run-up to last June’s European elections sent mass e-mails from her office to Greek expatriates after they had previously been leaked from the Ministry of Interior’s expatriate archive.

The message that “the NHS is changing” was sent on Thursday morning by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his remarks following his visit to the Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital.

The Ministry of Health is attempting to fill significant gaps in medical staff in areas of mainland Greece and the islands, with the establishment of financial incentives for 169 points on the Greek map starting from 200 euros per month and reaching up to 600 euros, even exceeding 20% of doctors’ monthly salaries, depending on their grade, specialty and region of work.

The incentives for attracting and retaining NHS doctors in problematic and barren areas were announced by Health Minister Adonis Georgiades, announcing that the Joint Ministerial Decision he co-signed with Kostis Hatzidakis was signed and sent for publication in the Official Gazette.

Thanasis Danis, Mayor of Souli and a doctor, decided to contribute significantly to the strengthening of the National Health System (NHS), which is strained by staff shortages during shifts. In a gesture of both high symbolic and practical importance, Mr. Danis was at the Preveza hospital to take a shift.

In the final government review for July, the Prime Minister refers to the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Democracy, developments in health and education, the operation of myCoast, and the results of the Panhellenic exams.

The Ministerial Decision defining the terms, conditions and procedure for the possibility of private practice for doctors, dentists and medical specialists of the National Health Service signed by the Minister of Health , Adonis Georgiades and the Deputy Minister of Health, Marios Themistocleous.

The healthcare system wasn’t the problem,the Minister of Health emphasised that the NHS has good doctors

A cancer patient in the Cretan city of Iraklio took his own his life as he was unable to bear the pain while waiting for a chemotherapy drug, his family have said.

The family said that the 72-year-man suffered terribly while waiting for the medicine and his condition deteriorated, which he outlined in a note he had left for them.

As part of the effort to reduce patients' waiting time for operations in Greece, the National Health Service (ESY) will on February 1 introduce a digital filing system for hospitals' scheduled surgeries and their order of priority.