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The mother of a schoolboy who suffered a severe brain injury in a car crash has highlighted March’s status as Brain Injury Awareness Month. Helen Cart said she planned to use the international commemoration month to promote brain injury prevention, a...

Small adjustments and better co-ordination in the healthcare system could help save lives, the Bermuda Health Council said yesterday. A BHeC spokesman said that the health service had excellent providers, sufficient equipment and adequate funding for...

The Royal Gazette of October 21, 2021, posted an aerial view of a building on Happy Valley Road. The headline read, “Interest in disused building attracts interest from developers”. It was further described as the former Prison Service Headquart...

Environmental groups have raised concerns about plans to build a new hospice in Warwick. Both the Bermuda Audubon Society and the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce have filed objections to plans, put forward by the Friends of Hospice. Th...

Patients will be the main focus of a new universal health coverage plan, the Minister of Health said on Friday. Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly that a three-year plan would begin with a “foundational” layer to include projects highlighted in th...

Covid-19 booster shots will be give to people aged 50 or over and those with chronic health problems from today. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said boosters were already available for emergency and healthcare workers, along with people aged ove...

The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital today dropped from its top alert level to reflect a fall in the number of Covid-19 patients who need emergency and intensive care. But a spokeswoman said the downgrade from Level 4 to 3 was a tentative step. She ...

A weekly mental health clinic has launched as part of a pilot programme from the Bermuda Hospitals Board and the Department of Health. The clinic began at the Hamilton Health Centre on Victoria Street on October 8, and will continue to be held on Fri...

A proposal to build a replacement for Agape House in Warwick has been submitted to the Department of Planning. The application, submitted by architectural firm Lindberg and Simmons on behalf of the Friends of Hospice, proposes the construction of a n...

Bermuda needs to tackle child obesity if it wants to curb a surge in demand for dialysis, experts have said. A spokesman for the Bermuda Diabetes Association explained there were about 250 people who had end-stage kidney disease, with the majority on...

A group of nurses have won a total of $13,000 in scholarships to help them further their nursing education. Olievia Martins and Luz Soto-Lambert, registered nurses, were given $2,000 each and Tamara Symons, Regina Dill and Theresa Santucci, all nursi...

Mental health benefits and services in Bermuda are not on an equal footing as those dealing with physical health, the Ministry of Health has admitted. It was responding after Tania Stafford, a former service user at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Instit...