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The Island will host an international gathering of physicians and academics, commencing tomorrow, for the annual conference of the Caribbean Association of Otolaryngology, or head and neck surgery.
The CAO conference is to be formally welcomed to the...
DATE: Mar 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A subsidy hike for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital came as welcome news yesterday for the cash-strapped Bermuda Hospitals Board.
But rising costs — which Finance Minister Bob Richards in his Budget statement warned could bankrupt Government — have ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government has kept quiet on plans to curtail high-cost diagnostic imaging — but the hospital has defended itself against claims by local physicians that it has been the main culprit for spiralling healthcare costs.
Pre-certification, which requires ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Local physicians are “overwhelmingly” opposed to a health plan imposed by Government to rein in unnecessary and expensive diagnostic testing.
The initiative, known as pre-certification, will force doctors to consult with insurance companies or other ...
DATE: Jan 27, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A donation of $100,000 by the Kitson Group has pushed the fundraising campaign for Bermuda’s new hospital wing to the $30 million mark.
Brothers Kirk and Richard Kitson handed over the cheque to Bermuda Hospitals Board chairman Jonathan Brewin to mar...
DATE: Dec 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Government move to bring in “pre-certification” — requiring doctors to get a second opinion when ordering diagnostic tests — has been poorly received across the Island’s medical community.
However, according to the Bermuda Medical Doctors’ Associat...
DATE: Dec 17, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The salaries of hospital officials, which the One Bermuda Alliance pledged to make public, will not be released until hospital financial statements have been audited.
Responding to Parliamentary questions by Opposition MP Lovitta Foggo, Health Minist...
DATE: Dec 02, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman left waiting for weeks to obtain medicine for her son’s schizophrenia has had her prescription filled — with an apology from the Bermuda Hospitals Board.
The single mother, who is caregiver for her 26-year-old son, said she resorted to contac...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman whose schizophrenic son has been left without his full course of medication is complaining that she’s receiving the silent treatment from the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB).
“It’s not fair to him — and I can’t understand why I can’t get an exp...
DATE: Nov 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An initiative to survey the Island’s chronic disease risk has seen nearly 60 people trained as interviewers and sent out into the field.
Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin told MPs the team would be joined by 30 healthcare professionals to test ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
