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The request was for data and analysis on the number of stranded, medically fit for discharge and outlier patients in trusts for 2015/16 and 2016/17, both at national-level and figures at a trust level
NHS Improvement held part of the information requested and released information on stranded patients but withheld information on medically fit for discharge patients on the basis of the exemption at section 36 of the Act.