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Bermuda’s healthcare system needs to change its focus and cut its costs, Health Minister Trevor Moniz has told healthcare professionals.
Mr Moniz said: “Despite Bermuda’s small size, our health system is incredibly complex, fragmented and, at times, ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Department of Health has blamed a shortage of crucial vaccines for infants on “challenges” faced by countries all over the world — and has warned that supplies could run out again.
As reported by The Royal Gazette last week, doctors have been tel...
DATE: Mar 06, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Private health insurers could jack up premiums for seniors after Government changed the rules on coverage, a charity warned yesterday.
And Age Concern executive director Claudette Fleming said that the changes risked hitting the most vulnerable membe...
DATE: Mar 06, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Island will host an international gathering of physicians and academics, commencing tomorrow, for the annual conference of the Caribbean Association of Otolaryngology, or head and neck surgery.
The CAO conference is to be formally welcomed to the...
DATE: Mar 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The “Baby Clinic” usually held at the Somerset Clinic on Friday afternoons will instead take place at St James Church Hall until further notice.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said that the Somerset Clinic has experienced flooding as a re...
DATE: Mar 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Cuts in health spending totalling $17.6 million will cause some to “suffer distress”, Health Minister Trevor Moniz told MPs.
Mr Moniz was speaking as he announced that subsidies for Standard Hospital Benefit (SHB) — the minimum cover in any health in...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A shortage of vital children’s vaccines has hit the Island — for the second time in nine months.
Paediatricians are telling patients they are out of supplies of a number of different jabs for infants, including those that prevent meningitis, chickenp...
DATE: Feb 27, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A subsidy hike for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital came as welcome news yesterday for the cash-strapped Bermuda Hospitals Board.
But rising costs — which Finance Minister Bob Richards in his Budget statement warned could bankrupt Government — have ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Soaring healthcare costs threaten to bankrupt Government unless the One Bermuda Alliance can put the brakes on “a runaway fast car”, Finance Minister Bob Richards said yesterday.
The Minister warned an ageing population is putting increasing demands ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
An insurance company has pledged to make sure a speech-impaired toddler gets the medical help she needs — after the child’s mother was made redundant twice in the past year.
Single mother Alvina Brangman had begun fundraising to ensure her two-year-o...
DATE: Feb 19, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
