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Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) is celebrating World Heart Day this year with quick cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) courses for the public. BHB is the only American Heart Association Authorized Training Center in Bermuda and each of the courses off...

The Bermuda Health Council recently hosted a team from Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Tuesday, 10th September 2019 – Thursday 12th September 2019. The visiting representatives included Casimiro Canha Cavaco Dias (PAHO/WHO World Representa...

The Government intends to “soft launch” a significant revision of Bermuda’s healthcare next autumn, but full implementation could take years. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, told a town hall in Sandys last night that the details of the Bermuda He...

A Saltus Grammar School pupil has had whooping cough diagnosed, the school has confirmed. The Pembroke private school said in a letter sent to parents over the weekend that the incident was an “isolated case”. A school spokeswoman added: “However, ...

Bermuda’s doctors have warned the proposed Bermuda Health Plan may not reduce the cost of healthcare without hurting the quality of service. In advance of the first in a series of town hall meetings on the proposed changes, the Bermuda Medical Doctor...

Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, commented this evening on the Bermuda Medical Doctors’ Association’s reservations on proposed healthcare reforms. The group earlier warned that the Bermuda Health Plan could reduce quality of service even as it rei...

A charity tackling one of the island’s most prevalent chronic illnesses has appealed for funding, even as it prepares to open a badly needed new treatment centre in Hamilton. Next week, the Bermuda Diabetes Association celebrates with a roof-wetting ...

The chairwoman of the Bermuda Health Council has resigned for “family and personal professional reasons”. Alicia Stovell-Washington said that she had to return to her profession full time after the death of her colleague, the eye surgeon Leonard Teye...

The former chief executive of the Bermuda Health Council was accused in court yesterday of “throwing as much unsubstantiated mud” as possible and engaging in a media “bloodbath” after she was fired from the government quango. Tawanna Wedderburn, who ...

A veteran nurse with almost 50 years on the healthcare frontline is shocked to find she has no insurance coverage for emergency bone cancer treatment overseas. Eloise Bell, 73, said yesterday: “I’ve worked here for 50 years, paid my insurance for 50 ...