Bishop of Derby questions the drive for efficiency in the use of technology instead of assisting meaningful face-to-face pastoral engagement

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On the 14th April 2014 the Bishop of Derby, the Rt Revd Alastair Redfern spoke during a debate on the Deloitte report ‘Technology and people: The great job-creating machine published in August.’ Bishop Alastair spoke about the competing pressures of company supply chains and corporate responsibility, the values of society and the impact technology is having as efficiency cuts across the face-to-face pastoral engagement of professions such as healthcare.

Church of England in Parliament. 15April 2016

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  1. The Bishop of Derbyshire is quite simply right. Whilst technology can assist in the ever increasing database work and the tracking of people and places anfd the quicknordering of food and goods, it cannot replace the relational elements of pastoral care or the face to face expressions that accompany it . It all about balance or as the song says. It’s all about that base. No base no foundation relationship and human contact are reliant on facial expression and or inflection of voice or touch i.e. the s h making . Of a hand or a tough on the shoulder, to reassure the person up s there. Machines of whichever kinds. Role is to aid that.

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