Obese patients often require specialist equipment and more staff,say physiotherapists who warn of impact of obesity on NHSObese patients rob up additional bed spaces in hospital, require more staff to treat them and need an array of super-strength equipment to resist their weight as part of their growing burden on the NHS, or physiotherapists have said.
Other patients can miss out on treatment because those who are dangerously overweight need two physiotherapists for their session,while fewer beds have been fitted into some wards because obese patients use bigger ones.
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Source: theguardian.com