- The patient arrived at the James Paget University Hospital in August 2014
- But he remained there until this year despite him being ‘fit for discharge’
- The hospital says it launched legal action against the man as a last resort
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A man has been evicted from his hospital bed by court order after he ‘unnecessarily’ refused to leave for more than two years, it has been reported.
The patient arrived at the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk in August 2014 and remained there until this year.
But he was deemed ‘fit for discharge’, according to the BBC.
The hospital in Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, said it launched legal action against the man, who has not been named due to patient confidentiality, as a last resort.
The patient arrived at the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk in August 2014 and remained there until this year
A court of possession granted the order on December 1 and he was removed on January 10 and placed in accommodation in the community.
Anna Hills, the hospital’s director of governance, told the BBC: ‘The gentleman repeatedly refused all offers of appropriate accommodation organised by our local authority and social care partners, despite being fit for discharge.
‘As a last resort, the trust had to apply to the court to allow us to remove the gentleman from the hospital.
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‘The decision to go to court was not taken lightly but our priority has to be considering the needs of all our patients.’
Each day someone uses an NHS bed, it costs an average of £306, the Department of Health has previously estimated.
This means the patient’s hospital stay would have racked up to around £223,000, MailOnline believes.
The hospital in Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, said it launched legal action against the man, who has not been named due to patient confidentiality, as a last resort (stock)
This comes after figures in December revealed bedblocking is costing the NHS half a billion pounds each year.
The rate at which patients are becoming trapped in hospital because of a lack of care at home has more than doubled since 2010.
At the most recent count there were as many as 4,568 mostly elderly patients stuck on hospital wards.
In 2015/16, bedblocking patients who were well enough to be discharged spent a total of 1,489,575 days in hospital.
Figures analysed by Labour showed this money could have paid for 10,775 nurses at a cost of £42,300 a year, including salary and admin fees.
Alternatively it could have funded 450,000 cataract operations, 41,000 hip replacements or 28,000 breast cancer treatments.
While a think tank last year warned that the NHS will waste £3.3 billion over the next five years on the crisis.
ResPublica said delayed transfers were a growing problem in England and efforts to tackle it had failed.
It called for greater investment in social care to drive down the numbers of people relying on the NHS despite being medically fit to be discharged.
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