1. Since 1.1.15 how many times have you taken court action to evict a patient from a hospital in your trust because you believe they are fit for discharge but they have failed to leave their hospital bed? For each occurrence please state how many days they had occupied a hospital day for while considered fit for discharge?
2. Of those patients discharged from your hospital in either 2014/15 or 2015/16 please state how many patients had been considered fit to discharge but remained in hospital in excess of one full calendar year before they were discharged? For each patient please state how many days they occupied a hospital bed while considered fit to discharge?
3. Using the most recent convenient date do you have any patients in your hospital who are considered fit to discharge but have been in hospital and been fit to discharge in excess of one full calendar year? For each patient please state how many days they have occupied a hospital bed while considered fit to discharge?

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