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Housekeeping duties at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital returned to normal last evening after a labour dispute with auxiliary staff was resolved. A spokeswoman for the Bermuda Hospitals Board said all evening-shift staff had turned up for work as no...

Operations at the island’s hospital were cancelled on Friday after the air-conditioning system broke down. A spokeswoman confirmed that more than a dozen non-urgent operations were put off at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after the air condit...

King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has added a pink glow to its emergency blue lights to highlight the fight against breast cancer. The Mammography Department and Acute Care Wing main entrance was lit up last night to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Mont...

Dear Sir, I am most grateful to the Good Samaritans who assisted me on August 28, when I sustained injuries from a fall in the parking lot of Lindo’s Family Foods in Warwick. So many people rushed to help — shoppers near by, as well as members of st...

Medical staff and students will be in line for training opportunities after the Bermuda Hospitals Board agreed to link up with Johns Hopkins Medicine International. The BHB announced the Maryland-based medical institute was chosen for a clinical affi...

A new addition to Bermuda Hospitals Board’s cancer care staff will bring decades of experience to Bermuda. Christopher Price was named as the new consultant medical oncologist by BHB this afternoon. The addition of Dr Price brings the number of ful...

Dear Sir, I am writing to you in response to Christa Fubler’s Letter to the Editor dated July 18, regarding her experience at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward. While I sympathise with Ms Fubler’s experience and give her and her chil...

Bermuda could become a centre for specialist colon removal surgery, a surgeon at the Bermuda Hospitals Board has said. Fitzroy Hamilton said results in Bermuda were better than those of top European clinics that use single-incision laparoscopic surg...

Dear Sir, I am writing to highlight my experience on the maternity ward at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Little more than a year ago, I became a first-time mother to my baby boy. After a long labour, which resulted in an unplanned Caesarean sec...

Jeanne Atherden, the Leader of the Opposition, has called on David Burt to release “an unredacted version of the deal to build a new hospital wing”. The challenge was raised by Ms Atherden on Friday, during the inaugural Premier’s question time segme...

The island’s general hospital logged 430 incidents that resulted in harm to patients over less than five years, Bermuda Hospitals Board statistics have revealed. Of those, 28 fell into the three most serious categories of harm — 14 patients died unex...

“I” events: 18 Definition: event or error that contributed to or resulted in unexpected death 2 CPR in the emergency department 3 CPR in surgery 2 review of death in emergency department 1 terminal patient died while in surgery 1 lack of communica...