Patient support with improved control

A patient support apparatus comprising:

• a deck to support a mattress and a patient on the mattress, said deck including a headend deck section and a footend deck section, each respective deck section of said headend deck section and said footend deck section being movable to change an angle of said respective deck section;
• a display;
• a control system in communication with a user interface, said control system configured to adjust said angle of said respective deck section in response to input at said user interface, and said control system in communication with said display and generating a GUI (graphical user interface) at said display to display a deck icon representative of each of said respective deck sections;
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• said control system further including a user interface control to lock movement of said respective deck sections, and said control system further generating a lock status icon for each of said respective deck sections, and each of said lock status icons comprising a graphical representation of a lock in a locked configuration or in an unlocked configuration, and said graphical representation of said lock status icon changing between said locked configuration and said unlocked configuration in response to input at said user interface control to provide visual feedback to a user pertaining to a lock status of said respective deck sections.