(11 hours ago)DodgepotMcDougal wrote I've got no idea how many workers live within a mile of a route and that's that's the point in trying to make. It's obvious to anybody the only people that regularly travel to hospital....are the people that work there. So it makes sense for  services that wouldn't usually go via the Hospital to do so at shift change times.

Problem with that being it leaves whatever route they would usually be serving (when not diverted via the hospital) unserved during those times, which likely creates problems for people on or needing that route.  Closest we see to this (I think) is the X24A leaving gaps meaning you cant get from the Grindon/Hastings Hill area of Chester Road to Newcastle for four hours after 1530ish, though due to passenger flows on how that service runs, it'd probably be fairly dead runs in that direction at that time anyway.  Not necessarily the case for other routes.

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(11 hours ago)Andreos1 wrote Look at the 62A. 45 mins end to end and half an hour for someone getting to/from work at the hospital from Moorside.
They could get the 4, walk along Barnes Park Road and still be there at work before the 62A gets anywhere near the hospital.

Had a quick look at this on google and not sure you're right there mind.  From Moorside 8ish minute walk to get the stop for the 4, 16 mins to the Barnes, 19 mins walk along to the hospital = not quicker.  Though google reckons a change of buses onto the 32 is the answer, which is ironic given the argument that it's not useful!