Supersize NHS - Times Online
exactly, is being being supersized in the NHS? BEDS AND CHAIRS Hospitals have found that standard hydraulic foot-operated beds, which can lift 25st (160kg), are not robust enough to takepatients. Manufacturers are now supplying electric reclining beds, which can take up to 39st as the new standard. Even soThe 950-bed Aintree University Hospitals Trust has three beds with integral scales that can take up to 70st, and has justfrom bed to chair. The “HoverMatt Air Transfer Mattresses” uses the hovercraft principle to help transfer patients http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3900883.ece