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“Symptomatic treatment” is the phrase medical professionals use to describe attempts to treat the symptoms of a problem rather than its cause. In her newly announced health insurance reforms, Kim Wilson may have fallen into this trap. The health mi...

Plans for a broader, cheaper standard health coverage package to encompass all the island’s residents were given a cautious welcome yesterday. Charles Jeffers, the deputy chairman of the seniors advocates Age Concern, called a proposal to revamp the ...

This is the third of a four-part series looking into health policy under the Progressive Labour Party When the United Nations was established, it formed the World Health Organisation as one of its specialised agencies whose remit is to promote univer...

This is the second of a four-part series looking into health policy under the Progressive Labour Party Although the need for acute care will always be with us, reforms must take place and are taking place. The question facing Bermuda is simply this:...

This is the first of a four-part series looking into health policy under the Progressive Labour Party The objective of any health policy should be designed to ensure that people live a long and healthy life. Hence the promises made by the Progressive...

June is a very reflective month for me as a healthcare professional, a woman and a Member of Parliament. Each day, I fight for the needs of the people of this country, specifically women. I am passionate about improving lives and doing so through leg...

A $65 million reserve fund will be available for the hospital if costs run over the block grant to be provided by the Government, a public meeting heard last night. Jennifer Attride-Stirling, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, said sh...

The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre will operate as normal this weekend. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said that the St David’s clinic would be open from 4pm to midnight on Good Friday and from noon to midnight on Saturday and Sunday. A BHB spokeswoman...

Dear Sir, With reference to the article by Jonathan Kent on the Government’s plans to overhaul the healthcare financing system, it is yet another example of big decisions being made without there being a meeting around the table of all the stakeholde...

A doctor who wanted to run a walk-in urgent care centre in the heart of Hamilton has claimed a freeze on applications for new services will be “potentially catastrophic”. JJ Soares said a moratorium on requests to provide treatment under the standard...

Requests from the public for information have hindered the work of the Ministry of Health, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said staff were “disproportionately burdened” by questions submitted under public acces...