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The Island’s first home dialysis service is up and running — and could save Bermuda’s healthcare system up to $2 million a year. Bermuda Home Dialysis Service (BHDS) has been a dream four years in the making for local nurse Irena Ashton. “Dialysis ha...

A free yoga therapy programme designed to benefit Bermuda’s seniors is being launched. The four-month, one-on-one programme aims to demonstrate how yoga and yoga therapy counselling can help with some common health issues that affect our ageing popu...

Government dental services have been scaled back temporarily due to financial constraints, the Department of Health said yesterday. The Oral Health section of the Department provides dental health services for school-age children, special patients, ...

The three Government-funded dental clinics that subsidise services for children, seniors, prisoners and those with special needs has stopped taking on new patients amid staffing shortages. The Hamilton Health Centre told The Royal Gazette that its s...

Kim Wilson, the Shadow Minister of Health, has reissued a call for a “sugar tax” in the wake of alarming new obesity statistics. A recent survey revealed that nearly three quarters of Bermudians — 74.6 per cent — are either overweight or obese. Mean...

Physicians are being asked for their ideas on changes to the benefits under the Standard Hospital Benefit, Bermuda’s basic health insurance package. Alterations to the SHB caught widespread public attention after the health ministry proposed switchin...

Throughout this week, Bermuda Hospitals Board has been handing out data and information about the services it provides, how it operates and how well it performs. “Know Your BHB!”, running in the lobbies of the new Acute Care Wing and General Wing of ...

A contractor involved in the construction of the new hospital wing has raised concerns about the standard of firestopping carried out on the project. Rammy Smith claims underqualified workers were used on certain parts of the new building to meet the...

The Bermuda Health Council will this week begin publishing the identities of employers who do not have an active health insurance policy. Starting on Friday, companies who are not verified as possessing a policy will be listed on their website. Jenn...

Much-anticipated financial details have been released by the Bermuda Hospitals Board, showing some success in cutting costs. In a guardedly optimistic assessment, BHB chairman Jonathan Brewin said that two years ago BHB had expected to run out of cas...