The Eastern Daily Press report:
The number of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) patients being sent to institutions outside of the trust jumped from 77 in 2011/2012 to 117 in 2012/13, according to figures obtained under a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.
Officials from the mental health trust said they had received a surge in demand for acute beds.
However, they said the number of out-of-area placements only represented a small proportion of admissions.