After the 2.40 Has Gone

The Informal Lift Economy Behind a Regional Hospital's Afternoon Outpatient Clinics

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement follows residents of seven outlying villages to a regional hospital's afternoon outpatient clinics after the last return bus has left, through twelve weeks of travel diaries and interviews with those who give and receive lifts. It finds the afternoon trips carried largely by a small pool of retired neighbours, nine of 68 drivers giving 41 per cent of all lifts, and residents with no named lift-giver keeping 58 per cent of afternoon appointments as booked against 91 per cent of morning ones.

@misc{slop_9vhgvu,
  author       = {Osei Vandermeer and Marit Osayande and Ronja Oyelaran},
  title        = {After the 2.40 Has Gone: The Informal Lift Economy Behind a Regional Hospital's Afternoon Outpatient Clinics},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.9vhgvu},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-who-drives-whom-9vhgvu/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}