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Eight students on their way to becoming health professionals have been granted more than $100,000 in scholarships. The Bermuda Hospitals Board yesterday gave out the scholarships, most of which were the BHB General Scholarship, offering $10,000 for o...

A clinic set up to treat patients with mental health issues and chronic conditions has helped 145 patients in the last year. The Integrated Healthcare Clinic, which runs out of the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre at Southside, was established in July 2...

A hyperbaric chamber used after diving accidents and for some wound care patients will close tomorrow for more than two weeks. The Bermuda Hospitals Board announced that the equipment will be available again on September 19. A spokeswoman explained: ...

Health agencies are working to ensure that a specialist ear, nose and throat surgeon is brought to the island as soon as possible, according to the Government. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, spoke out after doctors last month expressed alarm tha...

The lack of a specialist ear, nose and throat surgeon on the island could cost lives, according to the Bermuda Medical Doctor’s Association. The organisation, which represents Bermuda’s physicians, also warned that deficiencies in the system to compe...

Almost 40 Bermudian students from a wide range of academic disciplines found employment with the Bermuda Hospitals Board for its summer student programme. Programme manager Asia Ming-Raynor said that 38 interns studying at 29 different institutions ...

Blood donors will be eligible to win free e-scooter rides as part of a new partnership between the Bermuda Hospitals Board and Whip. A BHB spokeswoman said that anyone who donates blood or plasma until September 30 will be put into a raffle to win tw...

Anna Neilson-Williams has been named the new chief of psychiatry for the Bermuda Hospitals Board after almost a year acting in the post. Dr Neilson-Williams, who has served as the acting chief of psychiatry since last September, will officially take ...

Managing funds at the island’s hospitals is “extremely challenging in the current environment”, the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s chief financial officer has said. Bill Shields added that the BHB was affected by rising costs and global economic challenge...

A $6.6 million project is under way to renovate the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s ageing laundry facility, a spokeswoman said. The work is expected to deliver efficiencies that will reduce costs. A BHB spokeswoman said the laundry and linen department ha...

Two blood donors have been rewarded for their efforts to help to keep the hospital’s blood bank fully stocked. Janice Richards and Shauna Peyton said that donating blood was “an easy way to help people” and that it could save lives. The pair were win...

The Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute could close within ten years as services are moved into the community, according to a new long-term plan for the centre published yesterday. The Bermuda Hospitals Board has published a five-year strategy for Mid-At...