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The new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Cheryl Peek-Ball is to take office on June 1. She has served as Acting CMO since the retirement of John Cann at the end of 2011. Dr Peek-Ball’s appointment was announced as the Health Ministry said the CMO’s office...

Retired One Bermuda Alliance MP Louise Jackson picked up a $30,000 six-month consulting contract to the Ministry of Health at the start of this year. Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said she’d needed Ms Jackson’s assistance so that “we could ...

A coming change in FutureCare premiums has angered some seniors, who say the programme is rapidly becoming too expensive. The new rate structure, unveiled by Government last week, ends the existing two-tier system in which seniors paid different prem...

FutureCare premiums will change next month, with Government injecting $3 million of capital into the programme to keep it affordable for seniors. Starting May 1, all FutureCare clients will pay a monthly premium of $440 — bringing an end to the two-t...

Bermuda’s National Health Plan has been put “on hold” pending a review of the ambitious programme. It had been expected that the plan would provide universal healthcare for residents by next year. However, a Health Ministry spokeswoman yesterday sai...

Government’s vow to reopen the Medical Clinic drew whistles and applause from those present for the reading of the Throne Speech. But Age Concern director Claudette Fleming sounded a note of warning last night about “the potential of creating a two-t...