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FAT CRISIS BOGS DOWN THE NHS
ABOVE: One cash-strapped NHS trust have been forced to spend £22,475 on special commodes
Healthcare must focus on early prevention of obesity to prevent costs rising.
Emma Boon, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance
THOUSANDS of pounds are being spent on extra-strong loos for fat hospital patients, it was revealed yesterday.
Bosses at one cash-strapped NHS trust have been forced to spend £22,475 on special commodes and super-wide wheelchairs in the past year.
And NHS trusts across the country are expected to follow, adding to their soaring bill for dealing with Britain’s obesity crisis.
Hospitals and ambulance services are having to pay for a string of special equipment, with the national bill hitting £45million in 2008 alone.
The expensive kit includes reinforced trolleys, special ambulances, extra-long surgical instruments to cut through fat and £120-a-pair jumbo-sized pyjamas.
Chiefs at East Kent Trust, which has five hospitals, forked out £373,000 on specialist apparatus for fatties from 2005 to 2009.
Last year they had to bring in the supersize commodes.
More than 900 people admitted to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, in the last three years were diagnosed obese.
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