'Supersized' patients banned from hospital waiting room because floor can't take their weight

Staff at a hospital have been warned not to send obese patients to its first floor waiting room amid fears the building will not take their weight.

Patients at Ealing Hospital in West Lodon who weigh 30 stone (420 pounds) or more are instead being fast-tracked to ground floor wards because management are worried they are too heavy for the admissions ward upstairs.

The revelation is part of an investigation which shows hospitals have doubled their spending to treat overweight patients and cope with Britain's mounting obesity crisis.