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Super Size Ambulance

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Factual: Health & Wellbeing

23/05/2011

BBC One - Super Size Ambulance

Documentary following the crew of Thames Ambulance's bariatric service.

Documentary following the crew of Thames Ambulance's bariatric service, designed to transport patients weighing up to 70 stone to and from hospital.

Over the past five years, the number of obese people needing hospital treatment has more than trebled, and as Britons get bigger, moving the super-obese to and from hospital has become a challenge as traumatic for patients as it is dangerous for health staff. 

But a new type of patient has led to a new kind of ambulance on Britain's streets, one that can shift people who weigh up to 70 stone - the bariatric, or 'supersize', ambulance. 

This documentary follows Thames Ambulance's bariatric service, one of the busiest in the UK, as it takes us into the lives of its patients, giving a unique and contemporary insight into Britain's 'Big Society', and its impact on individual lives and public services.

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