Towards the end of my nursing career I started to see new equipment, bariatric beds, hoists, commodes, wheelchairs, chairs, larger oxygen face masks, super-sized nappy pads, hospital gowns. Very obese patients needed twice as many staff to re-position in bed, some lifts were too small, theatre beds were too small, toilet cubicles were too small, ambulance lifts weren't strong enough, stretchers not big/strong enough, houses too small to extract patients. Obesity is a BIG health prob. #obesity