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The rising cost of health insurance premiums is unsustainable and unaffordable for the Island’s seniors, according to Age Concern. Claudette Fleming, the charity’s executive director, said that “across the board” hikes including new increases to HIP ...

A health fair is to offer the public an opportunity to talk to medical professionals and get free screenings. The Be Healthy Bermuda event, sponsored by the Lahey Hospital and Medical Centre, is scheduled to be held at the Women’s Resource Centre on ...

Senior Magistrate Juan Wolffe is prepared to join lobbying efforts to put pressure on legislators when it comes to updating Bermuda’s laws dealing with mental health. Mr Wolffe spoke candidly with The Royal Gazette on the introduction of restorative ...

Several employers have been removed from a list of companies suspected by the Bermuda Health Council of operating without health insurance. According to the BHeC website, Options Electrical, Serenity Gardens Nursing Home and Byrdies Ltd are no longer...

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...