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Applications for new services under Bermuda’s basic healthcare package have been put on hold while talks to change the scheme take place. Healthcare providers were advised of a moratorium on requests in a memo from the Bermuda Health Council last wee...

A premiums hike in the government employee’s health insurance scheme could hit seniors on fixed incomes, campaigners for the elderly have warned. Now the Bermuda Senior Islanders’ Centre has urged older Bermudians to push politicians to force down he...

The former chief executive of the island’s health watchdog was “mercilessly fired” less than three weeks before Christmas, her husband has claimed. Livingston Wedderburn said his wife, Tawanna Wedderburn, was sacked from the Bermuda Health Council wi...

A $20 million increase in health spending failed to deliver a healthier Bermuda, it was feared yesterday. The 2018 National Health Accounts Report showed the total public and private expenditure neared $723 million in 2016-17. Bermuda was third behin...

Parents were urged to find out the facts when the health minister called on them to ensure their families were vaccinated today. Kim Wilson said misinformation and hearsay meant people had become resistant to life-saving preventive treatment. The Dep...

Almost $9 million worth of contracts covering a four-year period have been handed out by the Bermuda Hospitals Board, it has been revealed. Cleaning and landscape companies, management services and external medical training were all included in the l...

A total of $1.5 million is to be paid to a professional services firm to help hospitals management to ease bed shortages and cut down on surgery cancellations. The Bermuda Hospitals Board has signed up international company KPMG on a six-month contr...

Cans of Del Monte corn have been recalled because of an problem in the sterilisation process that could lead to life-threatening illness. The Ministry of Health issued a warning yesterday and advised anyone who had bought affected tins to return them...

A special reserve fund could help to balance the risk in one of two “transformational” health insurance options being considered by the Government. The reserve would allow funds to flow between insurers with relatively healthy policyholders, who take...

A three-pronged threat from chronic health problems and an ageing population could lead to a leap in the number of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers, a British expert warned yesterday. Tim Forester-Morgan said diabetes, heart disease and an ageing popula...