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Councils weigh in over inaccurate hospital scales
Council trading standards chiefs are launching a nationwide crackdown on inaccurate hospital weighing scales that could be putting patients’ lives at risk.
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Hospitals, surgeries and nursing homes have been told to check the scales that they use to weigh patients, because of fears that defective ones could cause errors in medication.
The Government has issued a warning that patients could be given the wrong doses of drugs if their weight is calculated inaccurately.