NHS trust apologises as man kept in hospital for more than a year

A antheral with carnal and intelligence wellness problems is "living" successful a infirmary contempt being acceptable to leave, a tribunal has heard.

The man, who is successful his 30s, has been successful infirmary for much than a year.

A barrister starring the man's ineligible squad told however helium had tried to "escape" and broke an limb during the attempt.

The Court of Protection heard that helium remained successful infirmary due to the fact that nary "available alternate accommodation" had been found.

Manchester City Council has work for his care, but the NHS spot progressive has apologised for "not yet" identifying a "suitable assemblage placement".

A lawyer representing different wellness authorization told the justice that professionals progressive were nether unit due to the fact that of the "state" of the wellness and societal attraction services.

Mr Justice Hayden, who is overseeing the case, asked wherefore nary program for the man's discharge had been formulated and indicated that helium would reappraisal the lawsuit successful the adjacent future.

"This is simply a lawsuit astir a young antheral who has been successful [hospital] for implicit a year," barrister Ben McCormack, who is starring the man's ineligible team, said successful a written lawsuit outline.

"He is medically acceptable to beryllium discharged."

Mr McCormack said the antheral was "living" successful infirmary and added: "The existent occupation is that nary disposable alternate accommodation has yet been sourced."

He said contempt the "wide range" of nationalist authorities involved, each of which supported discharge, the antheral remained successful infirmary without immoderate "alternative options really yet connected the table".

"[He] dislikes being required to unrecorded successful hospital," Mr McCormack told the judge.

"He feels imprisoned. He has tried to flight done the ceiling of the bath attached to his ward.

"He wounded himself, helium broke his arm."

Mr McCormack said the antheral had "extensive wellness needs" which would request to beryllium met extracurricular hospital.

But helium added: "We are not attempting to onshore a idiosyncratic connected the Moon here."

Mr McCormack said the antheral had a computer, and a television, and had watched the World Cup Final connected Sunday.

"We volition deploy immoderate and each assets to effort and get this antheral retired of hospital," Vikram Sachdeva KC, who represented 1 of the wellness authorities involved, told the judge.

"We cognize the authorities that the wellness work and societal attraction services are in.

"It is acold comfortableness to the individual, but the professionals bash person that pressure."

Barrister Alexis Hearnden, who represented the NHS spot involved, told the justice successful a written lawsuit outline: "The spot offers an apology to the tribunal and [the man] that it has not yet identified a suitable assemblage placement."

She said "progress" had been made recently.

"[His] carnal wellness has astatine times been highly precarious," she said.

"During the currency of this infirmary admission, his wellness has besides fluctuated and a changeable successful July 2022 acceptable backmost plans to discharge [him] from hospital."

Manchester City Council has been approached for comment.