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Health chiefs hope to reduce the number of medical tests being carried out at King Edward VII Memorial in a bid to bring down costs at the facility. And the move could also reduce health insurance premiums, which have shot up by as much as 20 percent...

Construction crews employed on the new hospital wing have clocked up more than one million hours of work on the new facility. The Acute Care Wing — the largest construction project in Bermuda’s history — broke ground in January 2011 and is set for co...

Plans to shut down the hospital’s Continuing Care Unit will take at least two years to implement, Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin has revealed. Last week the Minister said Government planned to shut down the facility because it was “not fit f...

A “fee-for-service” billing system at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is being reviewed by health chiefs who claim that it “incentivised” physicians to carry out tests and invasive examinations on patients in order to increase the hospital’s revenu...

Government is to shut down the Continuing Care Unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital because it is “not fit for purpose” and “inappropriate” to keep elderly patients there. Announcing the decision, Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin said tha...

Shadow Health Minister Zane DeSilva has issued a robust defence of the running of Bermuda’s hospitals under his watch. Mr DeSilva, who was Health Minister between November 2010 and December 2012, spoke out after the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) reve...

Some doctors employed at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital were “significantly overpaid” and even given bonuses after negotiating contracts with former hospital Chief of Staff Donald Thomas, according to the new Bermuda Hospitals Board. And the findi...

The new Bermuda Hospitals Board is undertaking a series of “corrective actions” to strengthen governance and ensure that certain “situations are not repeated”. And health chiefs have also pledged to be more transparent and accountable to the general ...

British administrator David Hill was the man at the helm of BHB for much of the period during which management decisions at the hospital are now being questioned. But critics have questioned which senior executives had the final say in policy decisio...