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If you are an S1 holder living in Cyprus and you have a UK European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), this card remains valid for use across the EU for any necessary treatment, until the card expires. Once your EHIC expires you can apply online for a new card - www.nhs.uk/ehic.

UK in Cyprus - British High Commission Nicosia

Recently applied for the new GHIC card.

Diocletian wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:53 am Recently applied for the new GHIC card.

The way I read it , I will not be able to apply for a GHIC , but I will be able to apply for a EHIC .

U.K. pensioner living in Cyprus with an S1 .

https://www.ghic.org.uk/Internet/startApplication.do

Certainly a letter I had in December from the Overseas Healthcare Services (OHS) in the UK contained instructions for applying online for an EHIC card. I completed the application. I had an email saying an EHIC card would be sent.

If you go onto the NHSBSA.NHS.UK web site the GHIC is for those living in UK.

Thanks Trev , My EHIC ran out in July last year , but I as I had no plans to travel anywhere I thought I would wait until Brexit had ended . Still have no plans for travel but will now apply for new EHIC just in case .

We applied several weeks ago. Not received them yet...

Our EHIC cards arrived this morning and valid for the next five years.

We applied in November.

It is good to know that they are getting here, eventually ..

Mrblobby wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:08 pm

Diocletian wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:53 am Recently applied for the new GHIC card.

The way I read it , I will not be able to apply for a GHIC , but I will be able to apply for a EHIC .

U.K. pensioner living in Cyprus with an S1 .

https://www.ghic.org.uk/Internet/startApplication.do

That would be right in your circumstances. I am below retirement age and thus got a GHIC.

Are you referring to the Cyprus Medical Card which is (usually) valid for 5 years? Ours are renewed even though we have E121 forms which have been superseded by the S1 form.
People have been renewing them at the CSC but perhaps worth an email ([email protected]) or phone call (Tel 17000) to GESY to find out if the card is still required for some GESY services eg at the state hospitals.

A lot of us Brits refer to the white medical card as the E121 , but if you flip the card over you will see it is the YY [IY] 91 .

According to Tala blog spot it might still be needed despite Gesy , so best to get a new one . They are usually on the ball at posting them out .

https://talanews.blogspot.com/2020/12/w ... ed-at.html

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I was also advised this for hospital cards - not just the white one. Some areas are still not covered under Gesy.

Jeanne

We automatically received our new white medical card in the post last week, hadn’t even realized they were due for renewal!

New EHIC cards arrived today dated end of 2025 even though our previous card did not expire until 2023.

That is good news for all the others like me that have applied

Not a direct answer but we were issued with a new EHIC card January 2020 which was valid for 5 years.
However, towards the end of 2020 there were some articles stating that S1 form holders must apply for a new EHIC.
This we did and duly received our new EHIC cards a few weeks later.

''Who can use a UK-issued EHIC
Some people can get a new UK-issued EHIC which is valid for visits to Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

You’ll be able to apply if you’re:

an EU, Norwegian, Icelandic, Liechtenstein or Swiss national, and started living in the UK before 1 January 2021
receiving a UK State Pension or some other ‘exportable benefits’, and started living in the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Switzerland before 1 January 2021
a ‘frontier worker’ (someone who works in one state and lives in another), and started being one before 1 January 2021, for as long as you continue to be a frontier worker in the host state
an eligible family member or dependant of one of the above''

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-resident ... healthcare

I believe the information in this link will answer HIC's query:
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/visitin ... itzerland/

Lloyd, ask your doctor to print off the form for a Cyprus EHIC and take it to the citizens centre. Then wait.

We got ours when they expired before brexit. They sre good for several years. I was told you couldn't have one but i knew that wasn't true. Wrote to my old MP in UK got them a few weeks later.