NHS bosses spend £250,000 on ‘unreadable’ clock

Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2:35PM BST 30 May 2014 | (By Agencies)

[Olog-hai]

NHS bosses have been criticized after they spent £250,000 on a clock—which staff claim is impossible to read.

The complicated light sculpture clock hangs inside the new £430 million Southmead Hospital in Bristol, which opened this month.

The binary clock shows the time through an unusual display of illuminated rings and bars, which represent specific hours and minutes. …

[Olog-hai]

£242,500 = $406,527 ATTOW. Wonder what would be spent on an Obamaclock in a US single-payer system.

[BenLurkin]

"It is public art, you peons. Now pay for it."

[The Antiyuppie]

Art Requires Sacrifice.

[Olog-hai]

Maybe, but not theft.

[cloudmountain]

Art Requires Sacrifice.

Does that include sacrificing BRAINS?

[KarlInOhio]

She said the sculpture cost £242,500 – including installation costs – and the total arts budget for the new hospital was £1,148,500.

Look on the bright side. If the UK is anything like the US, a mandatory fraction of the building budget has to be spent on art. At least this is somewhat useful as opposed to the usual ugly ass public building modern art.

I wonder how many cancer patients could have been saved with £1.15 million?

[Robert A Cook PE]

A “clock” nobody can read is “useful” ???

But is IS much better than the usual public “art” requirements that are - as you point out - used to fund useless public art students at public universities getting useless public art degrees ....

[BenLurkin]

Does that include sacrificing BRAINS?

Oh yes....very much so...

[cloudmountain]

Is this how the word "hoofer" for dancer started?

Bwahaha! I couldn't resist.