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This weekend, Stavanger University Hospital moves.

After years of preparation, planning, and thousands of hours of change work, the new hospital building opens its doors. Sunday 16 November. 250 patients transferred. 8,000 staff stepping into a new everyday reality.

Canoe has been part of this journey since 2018.

Seven years of work

Our consultants have contributed to a series of projects connected to the service and organisational development that made this moment possible. Trond, Annie, and Morten worked on insight mapping of day and overnight patient needs, helped develop day services for the new hospital, and supported the establishment of a multidisciplinary wound centre.

They also facilitated decision sprints to clarify new workflows around blood sampling and same-day patients, and developed visual communication tools to help staff understand what was changing and why.

More recently, Canoe and Comte Bureau joined forces to support the hospital's Learning Project, preparing all 8,000 members of staff through the change programme "Safe from Day 1."

What change this scale actually requires

Moving a hospital is not just a logistics challenge. It's a human one.

Eight thousand people needed to feel confident, informed, and supported stepping into a new building, new workflows, and new ways of working. That doesn't happen through a presentation. It happens through sustained, carefully designed engagement, repeated over time, at every level of the organisation.

That's the work. That's what "Safe from Day 1" was built for.

We're proud of everyone involved, and especially grateful to the extraordinary project director and the teams at Stavanger University Hospital who led this with such care.

A big milestone for the city.