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Haemodialysis prices will drop by $353 per session on June 1, reducing yearly spending by an average of $55,000. It comes as the Ministry of Health seeks to ensure transparency and consistency in healthcare costs by basing more pricing on the relativ...

A quick conversation about organ donation can save lives while reducing healthcare costs for everyone. Speaking at the launch of Organ Donor Week, the health minister Jeanne Atherden urged all residents to take the time to make their wishes known to...

Universal, unique numbers for anyone who touches the health system will be introduced by the Ministry of Health. This Unique Patient Identifier will enable providers to better coordinate care as part of the ministry’s push to improve the island’s “p...

Bermuda Cancer and Health’s plan to bring radiation therapy to the island could help save 100 lives in Bermuda a year, according to clinical oncologist Chris Fosker. Dr Fosker, who has been speaking at a series of public town hall meetings this week,...

With more than a third of Alzheimer’s cases potentially preventable, people are being urged to take their health into their own hands. According to Jo-Ann Cousins-Simpson, of The Family Practice, research has shown that exercise can cut the risk of d...

Twelve surgeries had to be postponed in March owing to the bed shortage at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The Bermuda Healthcare Advocacy Group expressed its dismay over the impact on patients, with one of its members claiming his own health prob...

Government healthcare premiums are set for a modest drop for “the first time in many years”, health minister Jeanne Atherden has announced. Opening Public Health Week yesterday, Ms Atherden said that the decline in premiums, just over $4, would come ...

Bill Shields has been appointed chief financial officer of the Bermuda Hospitals Board after “an extensive local and international recruitment process”, BHB announced today. Mr Shields’ designation comes at a time of “major challenges” for BHB to rei...

Every single bed in the hospital’s emergency department and the new acute care wing is full, Bermuda Hospitals Board CEO Venetta Symonds announced yesterday afternoon. Ms Symonds said that the BHB was managing the situation “as best as we can”, but a...

Age Concern Bermuda launched a new programme yesterday aimed at improving healthcare access for seniors. More than 80 people took advantage of the free screenings offered at the first of three health check events set for this year. “The initiative re...