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An aspiring nurse was put to the challenge last week when she spent two days volunteering at a medical centre. Teizh Hall, a Year 10 pupil at Warwick Academy, was stationed in an outpatient clinical unit at Bermuda Healthcare Services in Paget as par...

Recently in the House of Assembly, more relief for our seniors was promised by the Premier and Minister of Finance, David Burt. The promise of additional support with the aim to make sure seniors homes can be sustainable in the long term may be accom...

Bermuda’s nurses were applauded for showing “the highest level of strength and courage” as health professionals emerge from the ordeal of pandemic. Walter Roban, the acting health minister, today told a gathering for International Nurses Day: “Your w...

A lab worker with the Department of Health was declared the winner of the Public Health Professional Award for her work in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sakina Usher, a clinical laboratory supervisor, was credited for working behind the scenes ...

A member of a steering committee involved in the Government’s plans for universal health coverage said that the group was impartial and had “robust, open” talks. Kirsten Beasley highlighted that everyone on the island has an interest in strengthening...

Cancer patients have been given a new high-precision non-surgical treatment option, the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre announced. Chris Fosker, the BCHC medical director, said stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, also known as stereotactic body radi...

Bermuda Health Strategy 2022-2027 will provide the vision for a healthy Bermuda and outline the strategic reforms for our health system, reaffirming the Government's commitment to universal health coverage. It is the fundamental right of every man, w...

A massive surprise thank you banner was raised yesterday for the Government’s scientific adviser on her last day on the job. Staff at the Molecular Diagnostic and Research Laboratory in Warwick displayed the sign for Carika Weldon, who was unable to ...

A doctor said yesterday his Hamilton clinic was "on standby“ to help to meet demand for CT scans after the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s machines broke down. J J Soares, the medical director at Hamilton Medical Centre, offered assistance after the BHB sa...

Travellers en route to the US will be able to get coronavirus tests at doctors’ and dental surgeries, it was revealed today. The Bermuda Health Council said options for people to obtain fit-to-fly certificates would be expanded after an “unprecedente...

The Bermuda Health Council has called on the Court of Appeal to overturn a decision to allow a clinic to offer services under the Standard Health Benefit. Ben Adamson, counsel for the BHeC, said the body reasonably refused the Hamilton Medical Centre...

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 ...