Man evicted from hospital bed 'suffered discrimination because he was disabled'

Man evicted from hospital bed ‘suffered discrimination because he was disabled’

Last Updated: January 31, 2017By Mike Sivier

So-called ‘bed blocking’ – where people occupy NHS beds because there is nowhere else for them – has become commonplace [Image: PA].

Adriano Guedes, a 63-year-old stroke victim said he had tried to vacate his hospital bed but was forced to stay – for two years – because the accommodation he was offered was not appropriate to his condition. He was eventually evicted from his bed by the courts.

While Guedes’s case is extreme, so-called “bed blocking” – where people occupy NHS beds because there is nowhere else for them – has become commonplace.

I’ve seen cases where a person with disabilities or with special needs has been left in a Kafkaesque nightmare over the issue of finding a place to live, being offered so-called “suitable” accommodation which is actually anything but.

Thousands of people may be forced into living in places that might be unsuitable, shuffled off into a grim warehouse operated by a for-profit company determined to keep costs down even if that means running a place that might make a prison camp seem preferable.

Source: The man who spent two years in the hospital wasn’t lazy, he was disabled and discriminated against

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2 Comments

jeffrey davies January 31, 2017 at 7:41 am - Reply

welcome to tory britain were the buck rules over humanity
Barry Davies January 31, 2017 at 2:01 pm - Reply

And yet thousands are discharged early and wind up going back in because their home conditions were not suitable for their conditions, or they were not actually ready to be discharged. Unfortunately the government has this idea that despite decades of telling you to get on your bike to find work, they think families still live close to each other rather than being spread not only throughout the country but in many cases throughout the world.