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Substance abuse services will return to the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute next week.
Renovations forced the programmes to relocate to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for six months.
A spokeswoman for Bermuda Hospitals Board said dosing for t...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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News Staff
The Bermuda Health Council has created a new online tool to help people get value for money when it comes to prescription drugs.
The resource, aimed at decreasing the cost of drugs, allows the public to look up the suggested total cost for the most ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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Health
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A cultural and policy shift is needed to cut unsustainable healthcare costs, the Bermuda Health Council said yesterday.
The watchdog warned that the healthcare system had reached “breaking point” with spending topping $704.1 million between April 1, ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2018
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Health
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The Argus Group and BF&M Limited have made a joint donation of $100,000 to the Bermuda Diabetes Association.
Each company will contribute $50,000 towards the development of a new, larger facility at the BDA’s new location at 22 Princess Street. The i...
DATE: Feb 14, 2018
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Health
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News Staff
Bermuda Hospitals Board today announces a new recognition programme for its highly valued regular blood and apheresis* donors. From 14 February 2018, when someone passes a landmark blood or apheresis donation of 10, 20, 50, 75 and 100 donations, they...
DATE: Feb 14, 2018
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Health
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Patients concerned about the closure of a high-tech computerised X-ray service at the Brown-Darrell Clinic have been invited to a meeting tomorrow.
Ewart Brown, the former premier and owner of the Bermuda Healthcare Services in Smith’s, will answer q...
DATE: Jan 31, 2018
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Health
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News Staff
Friends of Hospice is to hold its second Memorial Moon Walk next week in support of Bermuda’s only care home for the terminally ill.
Walkers will be able to remember their loved ones under a blue moon, the second full moon in a month — as they stroll...
DATE: Jan 25, 2018
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Health
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News Staff
About 70 members of the public turned up to a meeting designed to improve mental healthcare in Bermuda.
R. Scott Pearman, chief operating officer at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, which organised the event, said people gave advice on mental health, chi...
DATE: Jan 24, 2018
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Health
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News Staff
Specialists in heart and lung problems are to visit the island this month.
Ofer Sagiv, an expert in heart medicine, will be at Northshore Medical & Aesthetics Centre from January 27 to 29, and Maciej Walczyszyn, who specialises in lung and critical ...
DATE: Jan 20, 2018
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Health
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News Staff
Cheaper healthcare will continue to be one of the most important government priorities, health minister Kim Wilson said today.
Ms Wilson said: “The Government is currently reviewing all healthcare fees and will implement a new fee schedule in 2018. ...
DATE: Jan 14, 2018
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Health
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News Staff