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FOI reveals thousands spent on new ambulances for obese patients

Ambulance services across England have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds to ensure vehicles can cope with a growing number of obese patients.

Bariatric ambulances are specially-designed and equipped in response to a 10-fold spike in hospital visits linked to obesity in the past decade.

The number of admissions has increased from 52,000 in 2006 to 520,000 in 2016.

Reported by BBC News. You can read the full story here. 

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