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A “fearless, no-nonsense” emergency room nurse also played a lead role in getting hundreds of patients overseas for treatment through her Bermuda Air Medivac service. BAM, which Eloise Bell ran with her business partner Sheldon Smith, was credited wi...

Patients will be the main focus of a new universal health coverage plan, the Minister of Health said on Friday. Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly that a three-year plan would begin with a “foundational” layer to include projects highlighted in th...

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 ...

Hospital patients will be allowed to have some visitors from tomorrow after a fall in the number of coronavirus cases. An easing of restrictions will follow the “long and brutal” surge of Covid-19 patients linked to the Delta variant of the virus. A ...

Hospital staff will be reminded they should not wear their uniforms outside work after a staff member was barred from boarding a bus, the Bermuda Hospitals Board said yesterday. The move came after worker said that he had been forced to sleep at the ...

The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital today dropped from its top alert level to reflect a fall in the number of Covid-19 patients who need emergency and intensive care. But a spokeswoman said the downgrade from Level 4 to 3 was a tentative step. She ...

A new and potentially more contagious strain of Covid-19 identified in Britain has not yet appeared in Bermuda, a top doctor said last night. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said there was no “indication at this poin...

Elective surgeries and outpatient clinics are scheduled to return to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital next month, it was revealed last night. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff for Bermuda Hospitals Board, reported a “significant” ease in the hos...

A weekly mental health clinic has launched as part of a pilot programme from the Bermuda Hospitals Board and the Department of Health. The clinic began at the Hamilton Health Centre on Victoria Street on October 8, and will continue to be held on Fri...

The Hamilton Bermuda Hospitals Board public reception desk has been closed until further notice. Bill Shields, the chief financial officer of the BHB, said that face-to-face contact had to be restricted because of the “high risk of coronavirus infect...

The public was today asked to get back to grass roots and connect with the natural world as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said mental health had become more important because of the stress of the Covid-19 pand...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has cut back the opening hours of the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre to bolster resources at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The UCC in St David’s will run from 5pm to 10pm on weekdays for at least two weeks from tomorro...