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An award-winning nurse is calling for frontline health workers to have more say in how health services operate.
Irena Ashton made the recommendation in a letter to Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, after being named Nurse of the Year.
Ms Ashton, wh...
DATE: May 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Increasing numbers of young people are being referred for help to battle eating disorders or have struggled with social anxiety, the Minister of Health said today.
Kim Wilson highlighted that although the Covid-19 pandemic affected children and teena...
DATE: May 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An event to help people with asthma moves to a new venue in Hamilton today.
Open Airways will mark World Asthma Day at the Victoria Park bandstand today, when information and support tools will be handed out from 11.30am to 2pm.
It comes after a two-...
DATE: May 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The controversial Travel Authorisation form is damaging the island’s tourism industry and must be scrapped, it has been claimed.
Michael Dunkley, the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance spokesman on health, said that the form, which has to be filled out ...
DATE: May 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre will return to its normal Monday to Friday hours of 2pm to 10pm tomorrow, the Bermuda Hospitals Board announced today.
Weekday hours at the UCC were reduced in January to 6pm to 10pm due to staffing shortages.
Week...
DATE: May 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A US celebrity doctor who visited Bermuda this week highlighted concerns about the excessive centralisation of decision-making in healthcare.
Drew Pinsky added that it was important for patients to be informed and to have options for health coverage....
DATE: Apr 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
More time can be devoted to supporting workplace safety and health measures since the island moved into its latest phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, a senior environmental health officer said.
Susan Hill Davidson’s comments came on World Day for Safety...
DATE: Apr 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda’s Covid-19 numbers continue to rise, with 376 active cases after 345 people were found positive for the coronavirus
DATE: Apr 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudians suffering from drug and alcohol addiction are being encouraged to attend a recovery programme in the UK that caters to Black and ethnic minority patients.
Bermudian Llewelyn Gomes, a recovery coach for Nottingham-based BAC-IN — Black and A...
DATE: Apr 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Department of Health’s child health mascot, Bermy Germy, took to the streets today with staff to dance walk around Hamilton to promote vaccinations.
While Bermuda had a successful mass immunisation programme in the fight to reduce the transmissi...
DATE: Apr 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff