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of technical people in the building to address any glitches . For me , it has been more a matter of keeping the executive radar scanning and checking that there is no impact on clinical service delivery .”
And he doesn ’ t take all the credit for IT , applauding the clinical and admin staff whose core skills do not lie in delivering a project of this nature . “ Our staff were under pressure delivering high quality service at the old hospital while at the same time working out how the change to a new hospital would affect their work practices . That is a significant workforce change management challenge but they embraced it .” Technology is not about replacing people , he says , more about enabling them .