Nearly 200,000 patients a year are being ‘shuttled’ between hospital wards during the night because of increasing demand on beds, figures revealed today.

Dr Mark Temple, Acute Care Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians, warned the ‘appalling’ practice causes stress to the patient and puts their safety at risk.

Some 195,372 people at 58 trusts in England were moved between the hours of 11pm and 6am last year, a Freedom of Information request found. But 57 trusts admitted to not recording the data.

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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.