Woman forced to live in hospital bed for 18 months is arrested and evicted after NHS takes her to court

A WOMAN who was forced to unrecorded successful a infirmary furniture for 18 months contempt being medically acceptable to permission has been arrested and evicted to a attraction home.

The NHS took costly ineligible enactment against Jessie, 35, who was archetypal admitted to Northampton General Hospital connected April 14 2023 needing attraction for cellulitis.

After a period of treatment, she was acceptable to beryllium discharged but determination was obscurity for Jessie to go.

She was incapable to instrumentality to her erstwhile nursing location arsenic it was nary longer capable to accommodate her needs.

After recovering from the superior tegument infection, she spent 550 days successful a chaotic six-bed ward, with lone the curtains for privacy.

All of Jessie's possessions were stored successful boxes that surrounded her infirmary bed.

With conscionable her postulation of dolls for comfort, Jessie said that her intelligence wellness rapidly deteriorated during her enforced infirmary stay.

Keeping a video diary of her experience, she said: "I consciousness precise angry, upset, worthless, and similar my intelligence wellness and my beingness does not matter."

Jessie, who has been diagnosed with an emotionally unstable property disorder, uses a wheelchair and needs assistance with each her idiosyncratic care.

According to the BBC's report, Jessie "finds beingness hard and tin beryllium challenging to those trying to assistance her."

When she gets stressed she self-harms and threatens unit against others.

Eventually, the NHS took costly High Court enactment against her, to person her evicted from the infirmary furniture she was surviving in.

Following her arrest, she was taken to a caller attraction home, wherever she says she feels anxious.

Her communicative is simply a wide illustration of the pressures connected the attraction strategy and the knock-on effect it has connected the NHS.

The Department of Health and Social Care has told the BBC: "This is simply a troubling lawsuit which shows however our breached NHS discharge strategy is failing susceptible people."

The infirmary told the work that it was "not the champion situation for patients who are not successful request of acute aesculapian care".

North Northamptonshire Council, liable for her lodging and care, said it was incapable to remark owed to an ongoing constabulary probe into Jessie's behaviour.

She has been accused of sending violative emails earlier her eviction.

According to ineligible documents, the assembly investigated astir 120 attraction places, but lone 1 attraction location was offered - a supported surviving level successful a adjacent town.

The assisted surviving installation lone has 2 attraction unit initially contiguous for 24 hours a day.

Jessie said that her forced determination has near her feeling "suicidal" and brought backmost hard memories for her.

Jessie is the 4th idiosyncratic to beryllium taken to tribunal by the NHS since 2006.

In January 2025 it was revealed that astir 13,000 of the UK's 100,000 infirmary beds were occupied by patients who didn't request aesculapian care.

A deficiency of societal attraction disposable successful their homes oregon a shortage of places successful attraction homes were the main reasons that diligent discharges were delayed by a week oregon more.

The Sun has contacted Northampton General Hospital and North Northamptonshire Council, for comment.