Thursday 8 November 2007

Eating my Words...

Ok, so I may have recently suggested that the NHS may not be ready for the obesity crisis threatening to hit the UK over the next 25 years. Maybe I spoke a tad too soon...

East Midlands Ambulance staff are doing us proud, thanks to some jolly expensive equipment. All hail the "bariatric ambulance"; a larger version of our well-known vehicles but fitted with greater capacity, suspension and hydraulics. Costing a whopping £100,000 each, they are equipped to carry patients weighing up to 55 stone (349kg). Four are currently in service around the East Midlands; Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln and Leicester.

While these are clearly very helpful pieces of equipment, let's hope the underlying issue of obesity continues to be fiercely tackled, rather than the effects of it being worked around.

On a completely different note, a Year 11 pupil at a school in Nottingham received an interesting birthday surprise from him parents this week. They ordered a singing telegram, but instead a stripogram dressed as a police woman turned up and performed in front of the entire class! Ooops.

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