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Mental health benefits and services in Bermuda are not on an equal footing as those dealing with physical health, the Ministry of Health has admitted. It was responding after Tania Stafford, a former service user at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Instit...

A team of medics has been formed to support those with intellectual disabilities and their families at home. The Community Intellectual Disabilities Team consists of nurses and therapists who work together to meet the needs of the clients and their f...

Bermuda has to “address its aversion to immigration” and also find ways to encourage highly educated Bermudians who have emigrated to return, according to economist Craig Simmons. That’s because it has an ageing population which is failing produce e...

The Pathology department at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has maintained its special laboratory accreditation. The accreditation through the Joint Commission International is an assessment of patient safety and quality standards. This is Path...

Fifteen more babies were born in 2020 than a year earlier, reversing a trend that began with the financial crisis of 2008. The increase from 525 to 540 registered births does not appear to have been due to a baby boom many predicted when the world w...

Dear Sir, A recent headline on one of Bermuda’s news websites shouted, “Over 850 vaccines discarded since January.” This is unfortunate and maddening as it should rightfully have stated: “Only 850 vaccines discarded since January”. As with the hand...

Janice Hollis (1941-2021) A devoted medical social worker instrumental in founding the hospital’s home care service for seniors has died at 79. Tributes came from across the island’s medical community for Janice Hollis, who retired from Bermuda ...

A three-year collective bargaining agreement has been agreed between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Bermuda Hospitals Board – that will last for another three months. Now both sides are getting ready for the next round of negotiations for a new...

An organisation has donated $50 gift cards to Bermuda Hospitals Boards staff to thank them for their work throughout the pandemic. Sean McNulty, founder of the Frontline Foundation, delivered the gift cards to Judy Richardson, the BHB Chief of Nursin...

Doctors were forced to cancel hundreds of non-emergency operations because of the recent spike in coronavirus cases. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said that elective surgery had to be postponed between March and Ma...

Fewer than 40 per cent of staff in long-term care centres have full immunisation against Covid-19, health ministry estimates have revealed. The ministry, in response to a public access to information request from The Royal Gazette, said an estimated...

An insurance company has won a competition aimed at increasing blood donations on the island. The Ministry of Health and Bermuda Hospitals Board today announced that Freisenbruch Meyer has won the 2021 Corporate Blood Drive Competition - for the seco...