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“Valid questions” and “understandable concerns” may account for why half the nurses and more than a quarter of the doctors employed by Bermuda Hospitals Board have yet to be vaccinated against Covid-19, according to hospital chiefs. Dr Wesley Miller...

ZipX Bermuda has donated $10,000 in response to the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Foundation appeal for funding to support the operations of BHB’s King Edward VII Memorial Hospital vaccination clinic. Kevin Smith, managing director at ZipX, said: “We ...

Due to the large surge of positive Covid-19 cases in the community, the Bermuda Hospitals Board will stop all visiting from noon today for acute inpatient units at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute, other than ...

Bermuda’s hospitals are surviving from pay cheque to pay cheque, with no financial reserves to cover unexpected emergency costs. The Bermuda Hospitals Board has even had to arrange a bank overdraft as a back-up should it need extra cash in an unfore...

The number of road accidents at the start of the year has dropped, the latest statistics have revealed. A total of 96 road accidents were reported for January, compared to 112 in the same month last year and 115 for the start of 2019. But the number ...

Hospital chefs said they could dispel a belief that hospital food was unappetising after they completed a nutrition course. Members of the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s food services team took the 16-week course in nutrition run by registered dietitian A...

A survey to canvass public opinion on the future of the Bermuda Hospitals Board was launched today. BHB management said the results would be used to help draw up its next five-year plan. Dr Michael Richmond, the chief executive and president of the B...

A leader at the island’s psychiatric hospital has taken on an extra role of acting chief operating officer at the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Preston Swan has been vice president of clinical operations at the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute for three ye...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board has announced that more visitors will be allowed to see patients from today. A spokeswoman said that the increase for acute and long term care wards came after “the return to a lower prevalence of Covid-19 on the island. S...

Another 19,500 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in Bermuda next week, the Premier, David Burt revealed last night. The fresh supplies from the UK mean that almost a third of the island’s population could be vaccinated against the virus by th...

The island’s first code of practice for dealing with people with psychiatric problems has been introduced. The Bermuda Hospitals Board document was drawn up to create “safe, effective and consistent” standards of care for the mentally ill. Preston Sw...

Hi-tech thermal detectors have been introduced in hospitals as part of a pilot programme to measure temperatures without contact with staff. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said two brands of monitor have been in use since Christmas Eve – two at the King...