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A $1.9 million boost to spending on health will help treat people with mental health problems, it was revealed in the Budget yesterday. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, explained that the Ministry of Health budget was “among the few” that w...

There have been 25 travellers to Bermuda pre-screened for Covid-19, the illness caused by a novel coronavirus strain spreading around the world — with all persons passing the 14-day monitoring period. The Ministry of Health, in a statement this after...

Ten professionals at the Bermuda Hospitals Board have achieved their Institute of Leadership and Management Level 5 Diploma in Leadership. This is the first group in Bermuda to acquire that level of diploma accredited by ILM, Europe’s leading profes...

Cuts could be made to the price of prescription drugs if the Government worked with other countries to negotiate better rates, the health watchdog’s chief executive said yesterday. Ricky Brathwaite, head of the Bermuda Health Council, explained that ...

The Auditor-General has called on the Government to take action over publicly funded bodies that have failed to release their audited financial statements. Heather Thomas revealed 29 public authorities were in arrears of more than 100 years of financ...

Cardio? Oh man, the word that many do not like to hear. Why? I think because they think it means running and, while I’m not 100 per cent sure, plenty of people despise the word. In reality, however, cardio exercises are simply exercises that work yo...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has made public its unaudited financial information for the past three years, revealing that its annual salary bill has risen to almost $200 million. A statement from the board said that between 2017 and 2019, salaries and...

A review team to assess proposals for tackling chronic disease in Bermuda is being sought by the Bermuda Health Council. The BHeC announced last year that $2 million was available to fund brainstorming on tackling Bermuda’s high costs of non-communic...

David Burt has challenged the pressure group Patients 1st to reveal its identity and meet with him over its campaign against proposed changes to the health insurance system. Speaking in the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday, the Pr...

A total of 14 people have been quarantined so far in the battle to protect Bermuda from a killer strain of coronavirus. The Ministry of Health warned anyone returning from China or other areas with person-to-person transmission of Covid-19 would be r...

Dear Sir, It saddens me to read the report in the paper today (February 10, 2020) quoting Jason Hayward’s comments on the Patients 1st assembly in Queen Elizabeth II Park. It would surprise me to know if the MP — the people’s representative from Pemb...

Dear Sir, The Bermuda Hospitals Board, one of Bermuda’s largest employers, is a publicly funded quango that will receive $146 million this year in taxpayer funds. I looked up the definition of “Quango”, which Wikipedia defines as follows: “Quasi-auto...