{"id":165855,"date":"2025-06-07T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165855\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:27:10","slug":"home-delivery-of-high-cost-medicines-begins-june-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165855\/","title":{"rendered":"Home delivery of high-cost medicines begins June 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pharmacy_EOPYY_queues_medicines_intime.jpg?v=1749286296\" alt=\"Home delivery of high-cost medicines begins June 16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pharmacy_EOPYY_queues_medicines_intime-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Starting June 16, all 120,000 monthly patients who visit Greece\u2019s national health fund (EOPYY) pharmacies will be able to receive high-cost medications at home \u2013 and even at their vacation homes \u2013 free of charge, authorities announced.<\/p>\n<p>The new service, hailed as a major relief for chronically ill and immunocompromised patients, aims to end the long queues outside EOPYY pharmacies. Medications will be delivered within 24 to 48 hours by a certified company, as long as patients have an e-prescription and digital authorization, and activate the home-delivery option on EOPYY\u2019s online platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a simple service,\u201d said EOPYY President Theano Karpodini. \u201cIt is the first of its kind at a pan-European level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said such policies show that \u201call this effort is worth it\u201d when it improves citizens\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting June 16, all 120,000 monthly patients who visit Greece\u2019s national health fund (EOPYY) pharmacies will be able&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-165855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114643969287718657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}