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Government is the top culprit for the Island’s “skyrocketing” health costs, the Opposition has charged.
Shadow Health Minister Michael Dunkley also accused Government of stalling on the release of financial statements from the Bermuda Hospitals Boar...
DATE: Aug 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Anxieties linger in the healthcare industry, over tomorrow’s deadline for the end of upfront charges on the insured portion of a doctor or dentist’s service.
Bermuda Dental Association head Chris Allington told The Royal Gazette: “I think there is a ...
DATE: Jul 31, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The latest grim forecast for the Island’s health costs has underlined the need for a unified effort, insurers BF&M have warned.
The Bermuda Health Council has projected that locals will spend $1.7 billion on their healthcare in 2021.
Said BF&M presid...
DATE: Jul 30, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Island’s rising cost of healthcare “may present challenges with respect to sustainability and affordability”, according to the latest National Health Accounts Report.
However, Health Minister Zane DeSilva said Government was nonetheless in a good...
DATE: Jul 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A patients' group is calling for Bermuda Hospitals Board to be more transparent and reveal why its chief of staff has been suspended from duty.
Mark Selley, one of the founders of Bermuda Healthcare Advocacy Group, told The Royal Gazette it was unacc...
DATE: Jul 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Department of Health said it is moving swiftly to improve accounting, after the latest figures for Government health insurance drew fire from the Opposition.
“Data clean-up projects” are expected to be finished by the year's end, a spokeswoman to...
DATE: Jul 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian doctor, Victor Scott Jr, is in line to take charge at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, follows the suspension earlier this month of Chief of Staff Donald Thomas.
A spokeswoman said the BHB “are in the final stages of confirming Dr Victor Scot...
DATE: Jul 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Health Minister Zane DeSilva admitted yesterday there had been a lack of financial controls in the Health Insurance Department, which had led to an “unacceptable” situation.
As he tabled six years of financial statements relating to government-run he...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
An overseas consultant has asked Bermuda Hospitals Board to look again at a complaint he made against Dr Donald Thomas in light of the chief of staff’s suspension.
David Green, of IHI Consulting International in Ontario, told The Royal Gazette he got...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is aggressively competing against charities while healthcare costs rise, according to Opposition One Bermuda Alliance seniors spokesperson Louise Jackson.
Speaking in the House of Assembly Mrs Jackson said that the h...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
