Woman living in hospital bed for 18 months arrested and evicted

A pistillate who spent 550 days successful infirmary was arrested and evicted aft the NHS spot took High Court enactment against her.

Jessie, 35, stayed astatine Northampton General Hospital for 18 months, contempt being medically acceptable to permission for astir each of that time.

When she was discharged astatine the extremity of April 2023 pursuing attraction for cellulitis, determination was obscurity for her to go.

This was due to the fact that her nursing location which she had antecedently lived successful for 9 years could nary longer accommodate her needs.

Following her eviction, Jessie has present been housed successful different attraction location but says she feels anxious due to the fact that the municipality it is successful holds atrocious memories.

She told the BBC: ‘I consciousness precise angry, upset, worthless, and similar my intelligence wellness and my beingness doesn’t matter.’

Jessie would grounds a video diary of her clip successful the infirmary and said her dolls would assistance her to support calm.

She besides needs assistance with her idiosyncratic care, uses a wheelchair and was diagnosed with emotionally unstable property disorder.

The infirmary said it ‘is not the champion situation for patients who are not successful request of acute aesculapian care’.

North Northamptonshire Council, the assembly liable for her care, said it could not remark connected Jessie owed to an ongoing constabulary probe into her behaviour.

Jessie attended her last tribunal proceeding virtually without an advocator but felt overwhelmed wrong minutes and could not talk.

Her mum besides struggled to talk and Jessie felt similar she could not explicit to the tribunal her attraction preferences.

Only 1 suitable spot was recovered for Jessie retired of 120 imaginable attraction location places pursuing her enactment successful hospital.

But this move, wherever she is supported by 2 attraction unit initially contiguous 24 hours a day, has near her feeling suicidal due to the fact that of ‘bad things’ that happened successful the town.

The justice said she could situation the council’s appraisal but she could not stay successful infirmary and it was ruled she indispensable leave.

The Department for Health and Social Care acknowledged the occupation cases similar Jessie’s airs to a broke societal attraction system.

A spokesperson told the BBC: ‘This is simply a troubling lawsuit which shows however our breached NHS discharge strategy is failing susceptible people.’

Nearly 13,000 retired of the much than 100,000 infirmary beds successful England were occupied by radical who didn’t person a aesculapian crushed to beryllium there, arsenic of the commencement of this year.

Since being placed successful the accommodation, Jessie says she has aforesaid harmed connected 3 abstracted occasions and is looking for an advocate.

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