Equipment and furniture for obese patients

In response to your request for details of how much money the Trust has spent on specialist equipment and furniture for obese patients (including items such as reinforced beds and commodes) in the past five financial years (2006-7, 2007-8, 2008-9, 2009-10 and 2010-11).

Information prior to dates provided is either not held or not held centrally. To collate the information for previous years would be outside of the Cost of Compliance under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as it would require locating and manually searching invoices which may not detail the fact that the equipment was purchased specifically for bariatric patients.

Over the last 4 financial years the following items were purchased to enable us to care for bariatric patients:

Item(s)	No	Price
Walking frames	6	£750
Patient chair	1	£445
Commodes	2	£250
Hoist slings	7	£1169
Disposable hoist slings	160	£2832
Hoist	1	£4450
Hoist scales	1	£895
Slide sheets	22	£240
Repositioning sheets	12	£3352
Sliding board	1	£65
Bed scales	1	£2500
Stand on scales	1	£1700
Mortuary cover	1	£95
Total		£18.743

Cost of hiring bariatric equipment from October 2007 onwards

Hired Bariatric Equipment