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Shadow Health Minister Zane DeSilva has issued a robust defence of the running of Bermuda’s hospitals under his watch.
Mr DeSilva, who was Health Minister between November 2010 and December 2012, spoke out after the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) reve...
DATE: Jul 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Cancer patient and research assistance group PALS has committed $200,000 from its Children’s Care Fund to two paediatric cancer research studies.
PALS president and CEO Ann Smith Gordon announced the funds will go to research studies by physicians as...
DATE: Jun 28, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Some doctors employed at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital were “significantly overpaid” and even given bonuses after negotiating contracts with former hospital Chief of Staff Donald Thomas, according to the new Bermuda Hospitals Board.
And the findi...
DATE: Jun 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The new Bermuda Hospitals Board is undertaking a series of “corrective actions” to strengthen governance and ensure that certain “situations are not repeated”.
And health chiefs have also pledged to be more transparent and accountable to the general ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
British administrator David Hill was the man at the helm of BHB for much of the period during which management decisions at the hospital are now being questioned.
But critics have questioned which senior executives had the final say in policy decisio...
DATE: Jun 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A catalogue of poor management decisions at KEMH helped cause health costs to rise without necessarily improving standards, it has been alleged.
In his letters to Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin and the public, BHB Chairman Jonathan Brewin sa...
DATE: Jun 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Donald Thomas III was hired as King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s highly paid chief of staff without thorough checks being made into his background, according to the new Bermuda Hospitals Board.
BHB chairman Jonathan Brewin told Health Minister Patr...
DATE: Jun 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Island’s hospitals are facing a cash crisis that could see the Bermuda Hospitals Board go into debt within the year, according to health chiefs.
And while an increased “utilisation” of health services is partially to blame for the Island’s skyroc...
DATE: Jun 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A woman who experienced two kidney transplants and years of dialysis caused by a strep throat infection is warning the public to be aware of their kidney health.
While Pauleter Stevens suffered kidney disease due to an infection, the two main causes ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Health Foundation (BHF) yesterday honoured celebrated doctor and cancer researcher Malcolm Brock with its 2013 Salute to Service Award.
Dr Brock, an Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
