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Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin’s promise to reopen the Medical Clinic by September 8 will not happen due to the “chronic” budget crisis at Bermuda Hospitals Board. Ms Gordon-Pamplin told MPs in the House of Assembly on March 8 that the facil...

Bermuda’s health financing is a staggeringly complex arrangement — especially for a comparatively small jurisdiction. “The input we’ve had from our advisers, who have experience of different health systems around the world, is that this is more comp...

The new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Cheryl Peek-Ball is to take office on June 1. She has served as Acting CMO since the retirement of John Cann at the end of 2011. Dr Peek-Ball’s appointment was announced as the Health Ministry said the CMO’s office...

Retired One Bermuda Alliance MP Louise Jackson picked up a $30,000 six-month consulting contract to the Ministry of Health at the start of this year. Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said she’d needed Ms Jackson’s assistance so that “we could ...

A coming change in FutureCare premiums has angered some seniors, who say the programme is rapidly becoming too expensive. The new rate structure, unveiled by Government last week, ends the existing two-tier system in which seniors paid different prem...

FutureCare premiums will change next month, with Government injecting $3 million of capital into the programme to keep it affordable for seniors. Starting May 1, all FutureCare clients will pay a monthly premium of $440 — bringing an end to the two-t...