- Adriano Guedes arrived at the James Paget University Hospital in August 2014
- But he remained there until this year despite being deemed ‘fit for discharge’
- The hospital says it launched legal action against the man as a last resort
- But the 63-year-old says he had actually asked to leave on multiple occasions
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A man who was evicted from a hospital after he ‘repeatedly refused to leave’ for two years claims he was ‘forced to stay’.
Portugese-born Adriano Guedes, 63, was admitted to the James Paget Hospital in Norfolk following a stroke in August 2014.
But he was removed after the hospital, which said he occupied a bed ‘unnecessarily’, obtained a court order on January 10 this year.
However, the pair have come to a stalemate after Mr Guedes’ fare of events differs to that of the hospital’s.
In fact, he says he asked to leave to be moved on multiple occasions, both to a ‘wheelchair-friendly place’ and a specialist clinic in London.
Adriano Guedes was admitted to the James Paget Hospital following a stroke in August 2014. He was evicted after the hospital obtained a court order saying he was ‘unnecessarily’ using a bed, but he has hit back and said he was ‘forced to stay’ (pictured during his time in hospital)
Mr Guedes said: ‘I didn’t want to stay, and they forced me to stay.
‘It’s very bad to occupy a place which should be used by someone in need, but I didn’t cause the situation. On the contrary – I tried to get out of there.
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‘I wanted to leave but they always offered what they knew I would refuse.’
But the hospital in Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, says he was offered appropriate accommodation.
He says he asked to leave to be moved on multiple occasions, both to a ‘wheelchair-friendly place’ and a specialist clinic in London (pictured yesterday in his council flat in Suffolk)
Anna Hills, the hospital’s director of governance, said: ‘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.
‘The decision to go to court was not taken lightly but our priority has to be considering the needs of all our patients.’
The hospital said it had worked ‘throughout in partnership with a range of agencies to achieve a safe discharge from the hospital’.
It said ‘detailed planning’ had taken place which ‘led to a successful discharge in this complex case’.
The hospital applied to the court for a possession order to claim back the bed occupied by the man.
It was granted on December 1 and Mr Guedes was evicted a month later. He is now living in a council flat in Suffolk.
The patient arrived at the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk in August 2014 and remained there until this year
Each day someone uses an NHS bed, it costs an average of £306, the Department of Health has previously estimated.
HOSPITAL DANGER
Nine in ten hospitals are so overcrowded they are deemed unsafe, NHS figures revealed in March.
A third had ran out of beds at least once over the winter, including some where it had happened nearly every other day.
Desperately ill patients needing to be admitted from AE are having to languish for hours on trolleys waiting for the next bed to become available.
This means the patient’s hospital stay would have racked up to around £223,000, MailOnline believes.
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.
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