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A pilot program designed to beam diagnostic imaging results direct to doctors and patients has been launched by the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Renée Butterfield, the manager of diagnostic imaging at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, said the scheme wa...

Housekeeping duties at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital returned to normal last evening after a labour dispute with auxiliary staff was resolved. A spokeswoman for the Bermuda Hospitals Board said all evening-shift staff had turned up for work as no...

Walk-in breast health checks will be available at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital today as part of breast cancer awareness month. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said that new and returning patients who had not had a mammogram already this year wer...

Operations at the island’s hospital were cancelled on Friday after the air-conditioning system broke down. A spokeswoman confirmed that more than a dozen non-urgent operations were put off at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after the air condit...

King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has added a pink glow to its emergency blue lights to highlight the fight against breast cancer. The Mammography Department and Acute Care Wing main entrance was lit up last night to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Mont...

Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) Nurse Practitioner Myrian Balitian-Dill is one of only a handful of registered nurses who have attained nurse practitioner designation in Bermuda. She is now the first to be granted authority to write prescriptions local...

A former pharmacist at the island’s general hospital has launched legal action against the Bermuda Hospitals Board for negligence that led her to need life-saving surgery overseas. Dionne Smart claimed doctors at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital...

Dear Sir, I am most grateful to the Good Samaritans who assisted me on August 28, when I sustained injuries from a fall in the parking lot of Lindo’s Family Foods in Warwick. So many people rushed to help — shoppers near by, as well as members of st...

Ewart Brown urged health minister Kim Wilson to “politically interfere” to ensure his clinics did not suffer financially in the wake of a One Bermuda Alliance government decision to slash fees for medical scans. The doctor and former premier e-mailed...

A seven-month e-mail trail details the controversy that led to the Bermuda Government’s decision to offer compensation to medical services that were affected hit by a significant cut in fees for high-tech scans. “It would appear that the [health] co...

The WOW! Awards, an international service excellence and employee recognition programme, has nominated Bermuda Hospitals Board for two awards at its gala event this year. BHB has been nominated in the award categories Unsung Hero and Quality Service ...

Medical staff and students will be in line for training opportunities after the Bermuda Hospitals Board agreed to link up with Johns Hopkins Medicine International. The BHB announced the Maryland-based medical institute was chosen for a clinical affi...