I've heard the same nickname for the new South Glasgow University Hospital enough times now to be pretty sure it will stick: The Death Star.

If you know as much about the Star Wars films as me, you're probably thinking: "But the Death Star was spherical and that shiny addition to the city skyline is more like an inflated X." There is something intergalactic about it though and like The Death Star - it looks high tech and imposing at the same time. It will also house an entire community.

Anxiety about moving into what is, on many levels, a fantastic building is also running high right now. That's entirely understandable. It's a massive undertaking. By the end of June three A&E departments, hundreds of inpatient wards and an entire children's hospital will have relocated there - at least, that's Plan A. (With hospitals already bursting it might make sense to keep some patients elsewhere.) People should be worried about the move, even if preparations are running smoothly. If by the summer the biggest problem has been a lack of parking spaces, then that's a success story. I don't want to belittle the extra stress struggling to find a parking slot can cause - particularly when you are trying to reach a sick relative or hospital appointment. If the Scottish Government wants to live up to its claim of being "patient centred" then making one of the biggest hospitals in Europe reasonably accessible is pretty important. But, the magnitude of the move being taken forward at a time when Glasgow's hospitals are struggling with demand could have more serious consequences as the nickname might possibly imply.

Don't get me wrong, much is impressive about this new building. From an architectural point of view it manages to be both innovative and interesting. From a patient's perspective, everyone will get a single, ensuite bedroom and an outside view - because that can have health benefits.

I say "everyone" - of course that will be "everyone" they can fit into a ward bed. It won't apply should you be lying on a trolley waiting for a space to become available for hours - as we know patients have been doing this winter in hospitals around Scotland.

Some elements of healthcare will change overnight with the move to the SGUH, but many will stay the same. Unless more social care provision and step down beds are opened rapidly, there will still be people stuck on wards because they are waiting for care to be organised in the community. The surge in sick, elderly people who need the expertise and diagnostic technology of a hospital - even if it is only for a few days - might reduce a bit with summer, but it is not going to stop. Whatever the truth about the bed numbers - and that's not easy to figure - there could be queues of people on trolleys at the new SGUH not because it has failed to deliver, but because the problems it is dealing with are the same as before.

The theory goes that centralising should free up resources to deal with these issues. The concern is the stormtroopers are so busy fighting fires, it is never possible to deploy the SGUH's full potential.