Looks good from the outside

A day on which I probably did at least 10,000 steps. I walked up to the main block for a meeting at 0830. Then back to the Unit for the Flow meeting at 0945. Then started a report of the assessment I did yesterday to give advice to a junior colleague in a difficult clinical situation. Interrupted that to go back up to the main block for the strike meeting, and then back to continue the report. Also contacted intermittently by community teams wanting to admit someone. Fortunately there were places for more than the number being referred. The final trip up the hill was to attend a meeting with the whanau of a patient. Her daughter (the whanau members who came) had complained to the Health and Disability Commissioner about some of ADHBs systems. The HDC recommended sorting it out with the DHB. I think we did, and the daughters went away knowing they had been heard and hoping that we might achieve what is needed.

This photo of the cladding on Carpark 1 is more attractive than is usual for such buildings. But there is one narrow entry to the hospital grounds less than 100 m away from the entry to the carpark. Between 1000 and 1500, the queue into the parking building extends out into the road and it can take an hour to enter the grounds. The whanau we were meeting with were only 20 minutes late, as were staff who came in from the community centre.

Don't judge a book parking building by its cover cladding.