In April 2025, a woman with diagnoses of mild learning disability, emotionally unstable personality disorder, functional neurological disorder, dissociative disorder and elective mutism, was admitted to hospital. In September 2025, she had surgery and was soon afterwards declared medically fit to leave. But the discharge did not happen. Instead, the case became mired in the unresolved practicalities of getting her home resulting in a series of increasingly urgent Court of Protection hearings.
