Rising numbers of NHS patients are becoming so fed up with their hospital care that they are discharging themselves against medical advice, new figures show.

Freedom of Information disclosures reveal that last year, 51,000 patients took the decision to leave hospital without being discharged by their doctors.

Experts said patients were increasingly taking matters into their own hands after becoming distressed by poor care, bureaucratic delays and enforced stays in hospital because of a lack of social care help.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.