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More than 2,100 employees regained their health insurance coverage, resulting in the collection of more than $700,000 in health premiums, thanks to the enforcement of the Health Insurance Act last year. The Bermuda Health Council monitors and enforce...

The Island is at a critical stage in addressing its healthcare needs and reform is vital to creating a more sustainable health system, according to Jeanne Atherden. But the Minister of Health, Seniors and Environment said changing Bermuda’s culture f...

The first voluntary registration of Bermuda’s health service providers is complete, the Bermuda Health Council has announced. There are about 320 health service providers on the Island and 2,470 registered health professionals. Jeanne Atherden, the ...

Reducing rates of chronic, non-communicable diseases while achieving affordable healthcare cover are priorities of the Bermuda Goverment’s Health Action Plan, an industry symposium heard at the weekend. Members of the health insurance and medical com...

Health minister Jeanne Atherden says the Bermuda Government is aiming to ensure better and more affordable healthcare as part of its reform plan. During the Health Strategy Symposium 2016 being held today at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Instit...

Knowing the quality of healthcare services is important to everyone — patients, healthcare providers, regulators and insurers. Our health is very important to us and the services we may require are very intimate and potentially risky. In addition, ...

A five-year plan for reforming Bermuda’s healthcare is to be presented tomorrow at a health symposium. Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Health, Seniors and Environment, said the Bermuda Health Strategy lays out 14 goals to be achieved by 2019. “Movin...

The Tobacco Control Act 2015 passed in the House of Assembly yesterday after a series of amendments. The Act had been tabled with the aim of improving Bermuda’s overall health and preventing children from taking up smoking, but became the subject of ...

Politicians dealing with deaf rights in Bermuda are “like lions without teeth”, a community leader has claimed. Franklin Fahnbulleh, coordinator of services at the Bermuda Islands Association of the Deaf (BIAD) charity, insisted that interpreting ser...

“Punitive and draconian” tobacco legislation brought to the House of Assembly has been delayed for the Minister of Health to rise and report progress after rigorous opposition from the Progressive Labour Party. While Jeanne Atherden emphasised the ne...

Asthma charity Open Airways is backing proposed legislation amendments that will restrict the sale of electronic cigarettes. The Tobacco Control Act 2015, first announced in last year’s Throne Speech, is expected to be debated by MPs in the House of...

The waiting period for routine oral health services is now up to eight months, the Ministry of Health, Seniors and Environment has admitted. Ten days ago, Government dentists stopped accepting new patients, as two employees finished their list of ac...