Welcome to MedNews Spring/Summer 2019 Edition

With the aim to serve the primary health care needs of the University of Nicosia community and the local population, the Medical School announces the opening of the first University Primary Care Centre (UPCC) in the country under the newly introduced Cyprus National Health Care System (GESY). 
 
The Director and one of the Primary Care Doctors of the Centre is Evagoras Nicolaides, Professor of Postgraduate Medicine at the University of Nicosia Medical School.  Professor Nicolaides formerly served as Director of the Cardiology Department at Nicosia General Hospital.  A second Primary Care Doctor at the Centre is Dr Christos Michael.  Dr Michael served until recently as a General Practitioner in London in the UK’s NHS system. Another General Practitioner is Dr George Athanasiou, Clinical Assistant Professor of General Practice and Head of Occupational Health Services at the University of Nicosia Medical School.  Two more General Practitioners, Dr Emanuella Georgiou and Dr Anastasis Sioftanos will join the Centre in January 2020.  Both are currently serving the UK’s NHS system at Newton Medical Centre in Bayswater, London.  It is expected that over 14,000 people will register with the Centre. 

The Centre will be a model primary care centre providing high quality services based on the UK system of a comprehensive, holistic and evidence-based approach to primary care practice. The primary care team will be multidisciplinary and will include nurses, a pharmacist, an administrator and a laboratory assistant.  The Centre will also serve as a training ground for UNIC’s Medical programmes.

The Centre is temporarily housed at the Engomi Business Centre and by the end of September 2019 its permanent location will be at the UNIC Research and Technology Building.