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Table 2 Distances from mental health and medical units to hospital facilities

From: Still in the shadows: a national study of acute mental health unit location across New Zealand hospitals

Hospital

MHU to entrance (m)

Med unit to entrance (m)

ratio

MHU to public café (m)

Med unit to public café (m)

ratio

MHU to spiritual centre (m)

Med unit to spiritual centre (m)

ratio

Whangārei

162.17

61.93

2.62

169.04

54.81

3.08

235.31

94.26

2.50

North Shore

162.45

43.4

3.74

179.25

66.15

2.71

123.2

30

4.11

Waitakere

245.4

140.67

1.74

210.48

113.72

1.85

229.65

103.37

2.22

Auckland

292.99

116.26

2.52

273.51

62.95

4.34

272.43

47.81

5.70

Middlemore

443.36

156

2.84

106.38

39.46

2.70

326.11

39.46

8.26

Waikato

249.74

56.8

4.40

181.83

71.61

2.54

154.97

97.2

1.59

Tauranga

266.53

102.3

2.61

156.44

41.68

3.75

258.01

110.88

2.33

Whakatāne

227.34

133.04

1.71

122.24

99.49

1.23

173.67

82.86

2.10

Rotorua

120.64

48.23

2.50

177.25

28.23

6.28

311.22

163.27

1.91

Gisborne

98.45

40.34

2.44

116.06

52.01

2.23

89.28

27.2

3.28

Taranaki Base

271.2

46.7

5.81

209.66

108.25

1.94

162.75

147.62

1.10

Hawke's Bay

122.64

62.58

1.96

90.11

94.81

0.95

97.24

92.61

1.05

Whanganui

215.32

82.62

2.61

211.08

55.24

3.82

173.95

24.7

7.04

Palmerston North

169.39

80.31

2.11

156.14

72.6

2.15

33.64

105.96

0.32

Hutt

131.79

25.51

5.17

182.31

107.46

1.70

145.76

53.9

2.70

Wellington

291.58

93.43

3.12

227.98

63.45

3.59

294.89

104.88

2.81

Nelson

129.36

67.85

1.91

144.89

30

4.83

149.26

30

4.98

Te Nīkau, Grey Hospital

47.56

66.24

0.72

96.59

24.81

3.89

139.89

30.8

4.54

Hillmorton/Christchurch*

3260

175.38

18.59

187.1

89.84

2.08

no spirit. centre

187.09

-

Timaru

65.75

17.99

3.65

172.77

71.61

2.41

114.25

39.83

2.87

Wakari/Dunedin*

2840

72.15

39.36

154.69

45.91

3.37

111.74

64.1

1.74

Southland

83.47

187.27

0.45

139.42

98.24

1.42

236.54

30

7.88

  1. *Separate psychiatric and general hospital