Hospitals have doubled their spending on equipment for obese patients, new figures revealed by the Liberal Democrats have shown. Hospitals spent an average of£60,000 on measures to treat obese patients this year compared with£30,000 spent three years ago. This included specialist equipment such as beds and chairs as well as increasing staffing and undertaking pre-operative assessments. The number of obese adult patients admitted to hospital rose by over 45 per cent in the last four years.
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The NHS has been warned of “crippling” finance charges from its PFI contracts over the next decade, when aggregate repayments on the deals will reach their peak.
NHS trusts recruited a higher percentage of healthcare assistants than nurses over a two year period, new research has revealed.
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