Back home at twilight

After staying overnight in Auckland, getting to the unit was merely a short taxi ride. Early in the day my programme seemed quiet and easily managed, so I took an hour out of potential times for patient assessments and attended (by ZOOM) the incident review meeting which workload has kept me away from for a couple of months. Interesting to be back.

Then, immediately after the weekly MDT meeting I discovered a number of Mental Health Act assessments were due today, and other meetings that suddenly appeared. Fortunately, I was able to delegate some of the ordinary tasks to the registrar, and concentrate on the legal issues. Finally finished and was collected by S and we drove back, which journey was amongst the least stressful such journeys, despite one point where an incident slowed the traffic badly.

"Incident" entered my consciousness a third time today, when a fellow DAMHS in a neighbouring DHB rang to tell me of an incident where a patient recently discharged from their unit had deliberately driven a car into a Police Car (in the central city) and was in the Custody unit. 

Tempting to label today as having been an incidental day.