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A total of three food outlets were shut to carry out improvements after random health inspections found problems with their food and hygiene routines. The three were among six food sellers ranked “D”, the lowest score, in the latest grades on licence...

Today the Government will effectively go into the healthcare business. It has been a rushed process and its consequences were not thought through. Why rushed? There were only a few weeks separating the introduction in the House of Assembly of the Hea...

Health minister Kim Wilson will make a presentation on healthcare costs at a town hall meeting. The Progressive Labour Party’s political education committee is organising the event at Alaska Hall on Monday, from 6pm to 7pm. Ms Wilson has said changes...

The Bermuda Government’s plans for an overhaul of the healthcare financing system will effectively shift costs from government-backed insurance schemes to private healthcare insurance. The likely result is that employers and the more than 33,000 empl...

Applications for new services under Bermuda’s basic healthcare package have been put on hold while talks to change the scheme take place. Healthcare providers were advised of a moratorium on requests in a memo from the Bermuda Health Council last wee...

Bermuda’s health watchdog has released an information brief as part of a push towards a value-based healthcare system. A spokeswoman for the Bermuda Health Council said that alternative payment mechanisms could be used to “reimburse the delivery of ...

In the final article of five in conjunction with the Bermuda’s Demographic Challenge series, Bill Storie highlights the over-65s. Today we discuss the fourth and last age group — the over 65-year-olds. Commonly referred to as “The Silent Generation”....

Recognising that many young people are not making conscious health and wellness decisions, Generation Next founder and chairman Eron Hill said the organisation will be launching a “bespoke health and wellness awareness programme for young Bermudians”...

Without effective regulation of medical-services providers and moves to cover the sizeable minority who have no health insurance, healthcare costs are likely to keep spiralling. That is the view of executives at BF&M Ltd, a major health insurer on th...

The departure of a health watchdog’s chief executive should raise red flags, the shadow health minister said yesterday. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said that the “removal” of Tawanna Wedderburn from the Bermuda Health Council was done “with no proper ex...

Cans of Del Monte corn have been recalled because of an problem in the sterilisation process that could lead to life-threatening illness. The Ministry of Health issued a warning yesterday and advised anyone who had bought affected tins to return them...

The Department of Health is to contact local food suppliers after a large-scale outbreak of E. coli in the United States associated with romaine lettuce. Authorities in the US are trying to control a series of outbreaks. A Department of Health spokes...