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Imagine a world where buying groceries worked like this: Each month, you pay a certain amount into a fund, call it a food premium fund, to cover most of your grocery-buying expenses. If you’re employed, you have to join with your work colleagues in ...

Work to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis means Bermuda held its place among a small group of countries to be internationally recognised for the achievement. The Ministry of Health revealed today that the island was revalidat...

It took a while, but many people have awoken to just how extensive the Government’s proposed health financing reforms are — the recent Patients 1st meeting had an attendance that was essentially twice that of the consultation organised by the Ministr...

Patients 1st is a weekly column where the Bermuda Medical Doctors Association answers your questions about the proposed Bermuda Health Plan 2020 and how it may impact you and your family This weekend marked the end of the public consultation period ...

Patients 1st is a weekly column where the Bermuda Medical Doctors Association answers your questions about the proposed Bermuda Health Plan 2020 and how it may impact you and your family This week we had an overwhelming number of questions about th...

Almost 3,000 people have signed a petition to demand that controversial proposals to change the way health insurance is funded are scrapped. The petition against the Bermuda Health Plan was set up just after a public forum that called for the propose...

The maximum allowed waiting time for routine medical imaging services has doubled from three weeks to six weeks at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital because of funding changes, The Royal Gazette can reveal. New imaging services triage guidelines said...

A rallying cry went out last night from opponents of the Bermuda Health Plan 2020 to shelve the Government’s proposed reforms. A packed house at a forum by the pressure group Patients First was urged to join a petition turning down “rushed” changes t...

Dear Sir, I have already written to you of my concerns about the Government’s plans to restructure healthcare. As stated previously, I agree with the goal, which, in a nutshell, is to have a healthy population. After practising dentistry for more th...

Proposed changes to the healthcare system in a bid to cut its massive costs without proper information would be a disaster, the head of a think-tank has warned. Philip Butterfield, the chairman of the BermudaFirst advisory group, said healthcare at p...

First, the evidence at hand. As you read this, and as confirmed by the Ministry of Health, there are 5,341 Bermudians, spouses of Bermudians and permanent resident’s certificate holders representing approximately 8 per cent of our population who are ...

“Five thousand, three hundred and forty-one persons in Bermuda are without health insurance.” — The Ministry of Health “Our aim is to provide universal access to healthcare through these reforms while bending the cost curve downwards.” — Kim Wilson...