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"BHB consultant ‘inconsolable’ as $70k claim is rejected"

Bermuda Hospitals Board has rejected an overseas consultant’s claim that he is owed $70,000 after being “frozen out” of a medical tourism initiative on the Island. David Green, of IHI Consulting International in Ontario, claims he came up with an ide...
Jul 10, 2013
Politics

"MPs face likely lengthy session as hospitals are debated"

Parliamentarians could be in for a long night when the state of the Island’s hospitals is debated in the House of Assembly during today’s session. Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin has put forward a take note motion on a review of the Bermuda H...
Jul 05, 2013
Health

"Former Health Minister defends running of hospitals"

Shadow Health Minister Zane DeSilva has issued a robust defence of the running of Bermuda’s hospitals under his watch. Mr DeSilva, who was Health Minister between November 2010 and December 2012, spoke out after the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) reve...
Jul 05, 2013
Other

"A glimpse of hospital’s new wing"

The public has been given a sneak peek at the new building at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital this week as a section of the protective mesh around the construction site was removed. Work on the $247 million project is ongoing, and the building ...
Jul 04, 2013
Health

"BHB: Doctors were ‘significantly overpaid’"

Some doctors employed at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital were “significantly overpaid” and even given bonuses after negotiating contracts with former hospital Chief of Staff Donald Thomas, according to the new Bermuda Hospitals Board. And the findi...
Jun 27, 2013
Health

"Board chairman: ‘Situations will not be repeated’"

The new Bermuda Hospitals Board is undertaking a series of “corrective actions” to strengthen governance and ensure that certain “situations are not repeated”. And health chiefs have also pledged to be more transparent and accountable to the general ...
Jun 27, 2013
Health

"Who made the key decisions for BHB?"

British administrator David Hill was the man at the helm of BHB for much of the period during which management decisions at the hospital are now being questioned. But critics have questioned which senior executives had the final say in policy decisio...
Jun 26, 2013
Health

"BHB reviews highlight poor management decisions"

A catalogue of poor management decisions at KEMH helped cause health costs to rise without necessarily improving standards, it has been alleged. In his letters to Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin and the public, BHB Chairman Jonathan Brewin sa...
Jun 26, 2013
Health

"BHB could go into debt within a year"

The Island’s hospitals are facing a cash crisis that could see the Bermuda Hospitals Board go into debt within the year, according to health chiefs. And while an increased “utilisation” of health services is partially to blame for the Island’s skyroc...
Jun 26, 2013
Other

"Dr Wade feels your pain"

Orthopaedic surgeon Jheri Wade knows well the pain of being barred from playing sports due to a sports injury. A couple of years ago he was playing cricket in Trinidad and collided with another player. He ripped his Achilles tendon and soon found hi...
Jun 24, 2013
Other

"Youngsters raise more than $3,000 to support hospital project"

Bermuda’s young people have raised more than $3,000 to support the King Edward VII Memorial redevelopment project. Schools across the Island held fundraising events for the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust’s (BHCT) Why it Matters campaign, which is...
Jun 21, 2013
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