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Patients suffering from heart disease are having to visit private practices for essential stress tests following an equipment failure at Kind Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The hospital’s only stress test machine has been out of action for two weeks a...

Unemployed residents without health insurance have accrued a $4.5 million debt at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Staff in the hospital’s credit department are now working to claw back what cash they can, with the remainder to be “written-off as b...

Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin has assured the staff at the hospital’s Continuing Care Unit (CCU) that they will not be simply put out of a job. However, she reiterated yesterday that action must be taken to improve the facilities available ...

Staff at the hospital’s Continuing Care Unit (CCU) downed tools yesterday over concerns about the future of the unit. Nursing aides, orderlies, unit assistants, dietary aides and activity aides from the unit marched from King Edward VII Memorial to ...

Construction crews employed on the new hospital wing have clocked up more than one million hours of work on the new facility. The Acute Care Wing — the largest construction project in Bermuda’s history — broke ground in January 2011 and is set for co...

Plans to shut down the hospital’s Continuing Care Unit will take at least two years to implement, Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin has revealed. Last week the Minister said Government planned to shut down the facility because it was “not fit f...

A “fee-for-service” billing system at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is being reviewed by health chiefs who claim that it “incentivised” physicians to carry out tests and invasive examinations on patients in order to increase the hospital’s revenu...

Government is to shut down the Continuing Care Unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital because it is “not fit for purpose” and “inappropriate” to keep elderly patients there. Announcing the decision, Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin said tha...

Former Health Minister Zane DeSilva has said that the Progressive Labour Party never pretended the hospital did not have its share of problems. However, he said the facility made forward progress during the party’s time in power. “The hospital is a v...