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Government dental services have been scaled back temporarily due to financial constraints, the Department of Health said yesterday. The Oral Health section of the Department provides dental health services for school-age children, special patients, ...

The three Government-funded dental clinics that subsidise services for children, seniors, prisoners and those with special needs has stopped taking on new patients amid staffing shortages. The Hamilton Health Centre told The Royal Gazette that its s...

Four new benefits and one improved benefit will be introduced for HIP and FutureCare policyholders — but premiums will also go up for 2015-16. The changes proposed by the Health Insurance Department (HID), will be implemented on September 1, Jeanne A...

Health insurance alterations have gone before the Senate — minus changes to governmental cover for mammograms. One Bermuda Alliance Senator Lynne Woolridge said the mammography amendment had been dropped in the face of “significant public misgivings”...

A group of charities has joined forces to call for a healthcare safety net, motivated by their concern about Government’s lack of consultation with the community on how to best address the medical needs of Bermudians. Speaking on the group’s behalf, ...

Protesters cheered outside the Cabinet Building last night after an unpopular proposal to adopt more stringent insurance coverage for mammography was dropped. It was an abrupt about-face for Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Health, who told about 200...

The cost of the hospital’s new acute care wing is about to be passed on to consumers through higher premiums, as the price of the Standard Hospital Benefit goes up by more than ten per cent this month. The Standard Health Premium (SPR) is set to rise...

New proposals affecting insurance coverage for mammograms were again defended by Health Minister Jeanne Atherden yesterday. Coverage is to be switched over to the more stringent clinical practices of the United States, according to a new Bill. In ad...

Health minister Jeanne Atherden has responded to allegations by Kim Wilson that changes in mammograms services could cause “death by delay”. In the statement, Ms Atherden said the suggestion by the shadow minister was “misleading”, and that the Bermu...

New legislation that proposes United States style medical guidelines has come under criticism from Kim Wilson, the Shadow Minister of Health. Ms Wilson was responding to the Health Insurance (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2015, tabled in Friday’s Hous...

The first case of measles in Bermuda for some 25 years may have been detected, according to the Department of Health. The case is now being investigated by the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit. Those close to the affected individual are being infor...

The Department of Health has issued a reminder on the importance of immunisation against measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases in light of recent US-based outbreaks. The Centers for Disease Control reporting a “large multi-scale measles outb...