“I feel very angry, upset, useless and my mental health and my life doesn’t matter,” Jessie said, in a hospital bed.

She is recording it in a video diary. Blue NHS curtains are drawn around the bed and all its assets are piled into the small chaotic place that makes it.

The doll sits between the boxes and the bag of bags to keep it calm.

Thirty -five -year -old Jessie spent 550 days at Northampton General Hospital. At that time, for almost all, she was fit to leave medically, but it was difficult to find a suitable place to go.

The BBC has followed its story for more than five months as the NHS Trust took an expensive high court action against him, capturing him to evict him from the hospital bed.

Jessie was eventually arrested and taken to a care home where she says she feels worried.

His story is an extreme example, but it exhibits the acute pressures faced by a care system that is combating with more complex cases, knock-on effects for NHS, and how can a person lose a person in its heart Is.

The North North Northamptonshire Council, who is responsible for their accommodation and care, says it cannot comment due to the ongoing police investigation in JC’s behavior.

The hospital says that it is “the best environment for patients who do not require acute medical care”.

The Department of Health and Social Care has told the BBC: “This is a disturbing case showing how our broken NHS discharge systems are failing to weak people.”

Jesse was one of more than 70 people who contacted the BBC after reading about Matthew in Surrey – which will end More than a year got stuck on a hospital ward Before taking a care at home.

Most who wrote to us that they have been told about their struggles that they needed social care, some also faced a long wait to get out of the hospital.

In early January 2025, about 13,000 people were occupied by more than 100,000 hospital beds in England who did not have the medical reason for being in accordance with official data.

For people delayed for more than a week, the most common reason was lack of social care available in their homes, or lack of places in care or rehabilitation homes.

Experts say that such delays have become normal.

It is very rare to take a patient to court by NHS – only the fourth case since JC 2006. So how was he arrested in his hospital bed?

He required treatment for cellulitis on 14 April 2023 at the Northampton General, a bacterial infection affecting the skin, which can be severe.

She uses a wheelchair and needs help with all her personal care. He has also been diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder.

Jessie likes sports, art and crafts, and is a trip to garden centers. She also finds life difficult and can be challenging for those who try to help him. When the emphasis is given, it is self-loss and can threaten to harm others.

By the end of April, she was ready to discharge from the hospital, but said she could not return to the nursing home where she lived for nine years as it could no longer meet her needs.

Jessie – which is unable to work and depends on benefits – rapidly separated inside the cubical of its hospital on a six -bed ward. She says that her mental health deteriorated, people stared at her and she felt safe from the drawn curtain.

From the documents that we have seen, and Jesse and her mother, Hilda told us, it was about a year before the local council offered an alternative space.

Sarah Scobe, Deputy Director of Research in Nafield Trust Think Tank, says patients Stuck in hospital for three weeks or moreLike Jesse, a lot of support is required, and the number of these cases is increasing.

Along with the councils – most of those who pay for social care – economically squeezed and overstrat, many care homes and home care providers are given only short -term money, she says.

This is “it is difficult to install services for them, recruit employees, train, invest in a service, if they do not know if this funding is going to continue,” she says.

The government says that it is “providing an additional £ 26BN to help transfer attention from hospital to community to the community, and to better deal with delay in delay by improving the link between NHS and social care. For”.

It also states that the review of adult social care under the leadership of Barona Lewis Casey, which starts work in April, will form a plan for the future for a fair and inexpensive care system.

In JC’s case, legal documents say the council investigated about 120 care places. He was offered only one.

It was a supported flat in a nearby city, in which two care workers were initially present in 24 hours a day.

But memories are upset for Jesse in the city. Apart from calling him “bad things”, it is very difficult to talk about it.

She told us that she was desperate to leave the hospital, but the thinking of going there made her feel suicidal. Therefore, he refused to offer a place.

Under the 2014 Care Act, Jessie should be able to express a preference where she lives.

He has mental ability, but was evaluated by NHS, which required a professional advocate, in which to support him, helps him understand the decisions that make him to make it and explain his ideas to others. Is called for.

Jesse was sent to a advocacy firm by the council, but his case was closed in June 2024 after being asked for a new lawyer, but then did not respond to further contact.

The health and care system is “firm, complex, very bureaucratic” and easy to lose a patient’s voice, Caroline said that advocacy charity, Caroline Antavistal from Voiceability says.

He believes that a lawyer “can leave the person who is feeling quite overwhelmed” – but for such services it is not with demand.

The hospital provided mental health assistance to JC, while she was in her cubical. But she believed that no one was listening to her.

“I explained all the reasons I was not happy with (accommodation),” she says, “but she moved forward with it anyway.”

In August 2024, 16 months after her arrival, the hospital initiated legal action against Jessie to re -prepare the bed that she was inside.

She really could not understand what is happening, she says. Nor his mother. They could not find a solicitor and had no lawyers, so the first two hearing proceeded without representing Jessie’s views.

The NHS Trust argued that a patient does not have the right to choose his placement, and that a hospital bed took important resources.

It said that it has taken care of the weaknesses of Jessie and the care package introduced by the council was important, in which the employees were present 24 hours to keep it safe.

A care plan, in which Jessie required necessary support, was given to the court only at the final hearing. The date suggests that the evaluation was completed a day earlier. It also notes that “Jesse is unable to communicate effectively”.

In the final High Court hearing on 4 October, JC attended the hospital from a distance. Within a few minutes she was overwhelmed and had to leave. His mother kept struggling to speak for her.

The judge said that the JC could challenge the assessment of the council whether housing and care was right for her, but she could not stay in the hospital “when she does not need a bed there, and one for more than a year Do not need, and others do.

He ruled that JC should leave the hospital, and said “We hope the infection will go smoothly”.

The Hospital Trust says that it is committed to providing the best possible care for those in our communities to “work with care partners” which “meets their needs”.

The most recent data from 2020–21 suggests that the cost of a standard NHS hospital bed is £ 345 per day. Adjustment to inflation, this would mean that JC’s stay in hospital is likely to exceed £ 200,000. We do not know what the cost of legal action is.

Ten days after JC’s final hearing, 18 months after reaching the hospital, the police arrested him. She spent several hours at a police station before going to the flat in the city, which has bad memories.

The police is investigating him for several alleged incidents, he told us, which also included to send aggressive emails shortly before being evicted in October.

Since moving forward, Jessie says that he has been self -dying and the police have been called on three occasions – once by Jesse, twice by employees.

“They don’t know what to do with me,” she says.

Jesse has recently been visited by a new lawyer.