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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...

An overseas doctor is in Bermuda to discuss how healthcare professionals should handle tough topics with their patients. Christy Simpson, head of the bioethics department at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine in Canada, will give a series of...

The island’s flu jab importer has run out of shots after thousands of the seasonal vaccines were sent out. But BGA Wholesalers, the distributors for the vaccine, said a fresh delivery was expected on Thursday. A spokesman for BGA said the firm ordere...

The Bermuda National Standards Committee is to hold a reception to mark its relationship with an international accreditation group, The event will celebrate BNSC’s 16 year partnership with the Council on Accreditation, an international body that work...

Hamilton Health Centre services have been relocated after staff complained about faulty plumbing and other problems. Government announced some services had been moved from the Victoria Street clinic or suspended yesterday: • Child Health Services has...

Work is to be carried out to fix a range of problems at an ageing health clinic in Hamilton, the health minister promised yesterday. Kim Wilson said that the ministry had been in talks with staff and was working with the Ministry of Public Works to c...

Water damage at the Hamilton Health Centre on Victoria Street has put some of its services on hold from today, according to the Ministry of Health. Services for maternal health and communicable disease will remain offline until further notice while t...