The dilemma

Tuesday afternoon, bay four. Priya from the discharge team has a folder and forty minutes before her next meeting, and she is kind about it, which somehow makes it worse. Your name is on his form, in his handwriting, under the question about who the hospital should contact. Ken wants his post brought in, and he wants you to bin a get well card from his locker, signed Julia, with a mobile number written under the name. He will not say who she is, and you have not thrown it out yet. "I need an answer by Thursday," Priya says.

Your options

1. Say yes to covering him at home. He is going home, and you will work the rest out.
2. Tell Priya what you can actually cover, and make her build the package round that.
3. Say no now rather than badly later. A promise you cannot keep is worse than none.