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New premiums for FutureCare will be decided in a matter of weeks, according to Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin. But the Minister didn’t divulge details on how payments will be adjusted for the seniors’ insurance scheme. In an overview of budg...

January 29, 2013 Dear Sir, I applaud the new Health Minister, Patricia Gordon-Pamplin for her pledge to reopen the Clinic which served the group of patients very well. I am sure that reopening it would greatly ease the heavy strain that the closure h...

Government supplies of flu vaccine have run dry after an “enormous” public response over the weekend. Two hundred doses of the influenza vaccine were administered from the Hamilton Health Centre on Saturday an additional session brought on by demand....

Life expectancy rose, cancer mortality declined, but over the last decade Bermuda’s spending on healthcare grew and grew. When it comes to expenditure, the Island is second only to the US, the top spender of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...

A patients’ group repeated its call for Bermuda Hospitals Board to share its salaries and bonuses with the public, following the release of its annual report. BHB saved $4 million by cutting down on contracts and consulting, according to its 2011 rep...

As the ruling party insists that FutureCare is financially sustainable, the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance says that key trends indicate otherwise. A Progressive Labour Party press release criticised an OBA political ad in yesterday’s newspaper as a...