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Courses should be offered for caregivers to help people recover from strokes, a campaigner for the physically disabled said yesterday. Willard Fox, the chairman of the Bermuda Physically Handicapped Association, welcomed news that a specialist stroke...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) wishes the public a happy and safe Bermuda Day weekend. If urgent medical care is required we remind you that the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre (UCC) in St David’s will keep its normal operating hours - from 4pm to m...

An expert on diabetes has been appointed as a consultant endocrinologist by the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Andrew Jamieson, from, Glasgow, Scotland, previously worked to tackle the disease in the United Arab Emirates. Dr Jamieson said: “I am looking fo...

Fountain Health has recently added endocrinology nurse practitioner Lunette Castillo to its staff, with intention to increase access for their patients and work to lower healthcare costs. Ms Castillo has over seven years of community experience in th...

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...

Health minister Kim Wilson will face questions about the standard health benefit premium at a town hall meeting tomorrow. Ms Wilson said “misleading information” had been circulated after the Government announced that the standard health benefit wo...

A call by a patients pressure group for the head of the island’s health watchdog to be replaced by a “neutral” non-medical figure has been rejected by the health minister. Kim Wilson said it was “entirely appropriate” for a physician to chair the Ber...

Legislation to change how money is allocated to the Bermuda Hospitals Board is not in the island’s best interests, a top insurance executive said yesterday. John Wight, the president and chief executive of BF&M, said that “the healthcare funding ref...

World Lupus Day will be marked today. The event was designed to bring together people affected by the autoimmune disease. The Bermuda Lupus Association will hold a tag day tomorrow. The tag day will run from 10am to 6pm in Hamilton, with tag sellers ...

The Bermuda Government’s singling out of BF&M for criticism over health insurance premium increases is clouding the bigger picture of the ramifications of healthcare financing reform. That is the view of BF&M executives, who said there was much uncer...