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The transfer was to allow repairs to the ageing water system at the original premises – with the overhaul now complete.

The Government’s health clinic in Hamilton is shut for the rest of this week after service was interrupted by a plumbing leak next door. Public works staff said the leak adjacent to Hamilton Health Centre on Victoria Street would require “significant...

Lifestyle choices at the heart of driving up cost, putting unsustainable pressure on the health system

The promotion of healthy lifestyles and preventive care are “front and centre” of the Government’s new health plan, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, told MPs the two elements were a key part of a five-year bl...

Staffing levels at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital have been hit by the highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19, it was revealed. A spokeswoman for the Bermuda Hospitals Board confirmed that 25 staff were off work after they were infected...

A pledge to “streamline” healthcare administration so more cash can be spent on patient care was made in yesterday’s Throne Speech. The Government said that “systemic reform” of the system was “desperately needed” if the goal of affordable universal ...

Dear Sir, A recent headline on one of Bermuda’s news websites shouted, “Over 850 vaccines discarded since January.” This is unfortunate and maddening as it should rightfully have stated: “Only 850 vaccines discarded since January”. As with the hand...

A Bermuda-based healthcare technology firm has struck a deal with a US company to cut the cost of payment processing. MAPay, a US firm with its headquarters in Hamilton, has signed up with fintech company Algorand to create a stablecoin and use its p...

A Covid-19 vaccine registration hotline has been swamped with calls. One man, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday that the hotline was a “disaster” after he had made several unsuccessful attempts to get through. He added: “I must have trie...

A shortage of flu vaccinations happened despite 5,600 doses being ordered – an increase of 1,400 on a normal year, the Department of Health has revealed. But a spokeswoman for the department said officials were working to get another 2,000 vaccinatio...

Standardised fees helped to deliver a cut in the spend on hospital services from 2017 to 2018, the Bermuda Health Council said today. Tiara Carlington, a project manager for public health research and programmes, said the change was a significant fin...

A pop-up clinic was yesterday flooded by hundreds of people who queued up to get flu shots in the run-up to the peak season for the disease. The Flu Express clinic at the rubber tree near Warwick Post Office on Middle Road dealt with 660 visitors fo...