MENTAL health patients absconded from a Suffolk hospital 44 times last year, The Evening Star can reveal today.This figure, along with a catalogue of other serious problems that occurred in Suffolk's health system in 2004, has been released under the Freedom of Information Act.

MENTAL health patients absconded from a Suffolk hospital 44 times last year, The Evening Star can reveal today.

This figure, along with a catalogue of other serious problems that occurred in Suffolk's health system in 2004, has been released under the Freedom of Information Act.

See tonight's Evening Star for the full story.