‘You’re too fat to use the hoist’

A nurse who said a patient was too fat to be lifted by a hoist has been let off with a caution. Amanda Jane Anderson also left left a resident to wet the bed while working as a senior carer at Eagle Nursing home in Lincoln. Anderson was heard saying one of the elderly patients, referred to as Resident A, was too fat to be lifted by a bed hoist on July 13 last year. A colleague, referred to as…