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Most women due to give birth in hospital will still be able to have their partners at their side when they are in labour despite the Covid-19 crisis, it was revealed yesterday. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said last night that — as long as fathers or ...

The Chief of Staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board said that the community was the “first line of defence” against Covid-19, as he urged citizens to help stop the spread of the disease. Michael Richmond told The Royal Gazette that a supply of N95 resp...

The chief executive of the Bermuda Hospitals Board has taken a three-month break on medical grounds. Venetta Symonds has been off work since December 15 and is expected to return on March 18. Michael Richmond, the board’s chief of staff, is acting CE...

Every death at the island’s general and psychiatric hospitals is to be scrutinised to check if it was avoidable or unexpected. The new rules at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute were introduced in an attemp...

The Bermuda Health Council has refused to reveal the advice it gave former health minister Jeanne Atherden before the One Bermuda Alliance government decided to slash fees for scans last year. Tawanna Wedderburn, the health council’s chief executive ...

A doctor who joined forces with former premier Ewart Brown to threaten legal action against the Government over a cut in medical scan fees is to open a new clinic to provide MRI and CT imaging. JJ Soares warned last year that plans for the walk-in ce...

The island’s general hospital logged 430 incidents that resulted in harm to patients over less than five years, Bermuda Hospitals Board statistics have revealed. Of those, 28 fell into the three most serious categories of harm — 14 patients died unex...

A Bermuda College course launched in 2012 to address a shortage of nurses on the island has yet to produce a single qualified nurse. Seventeen students have so far graduated from the college’s Nursing Pathways Programme with an Associate Degree in Sc...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has pledged to release full details on the salaries and benefits enjoyed by its executive officers this month. The publicly funded quango rejected a public access to information request for the records from The Royal Gazet...

Hospital authorities have revealed information about 13 adverse events in the past five years which, in some cases, led to the death or permanent injury of patients. The Bermuda Hospitals Board disclosed the information in response to a public access...