A failing NHS trust blew £58,000 sending 14 staff on a fact-finding jolly to Las Vegas – including a five-night stay in a casino hotel.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust is rated as ‘requires improvement’ by the care regulator and ended last year with a deficit of £13million.
But today it sought to defend the trip, which critics described as ‘obscenely expensive’ and a ‘slap in the face for taxpayers’.
The delegation flew to the States for a technology conference in September, where they watched demonstrations of a new patient record system the Trust plans to adopt.
They stayed at the prestigious New York New York hotel, which boasts its own roller coaster, a replica of the Statue of Liberty and is located on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust is rated as ‘requires improvement’ blew £58,000 sending 14 staff on a fact-finding jolly to Las Vegas – including a five-night stay in the prestigious New York New York casino hotel, which boasts its own roller coaster
The Trust, which has 27,426 people on its waiting lists, said admission to the conference cost around £600 per person, with the remainder of the spend covering flights, hotel and food
One company that attended the expo revealed on social networking site LinkedIn that they were delighted to meet three staff from the Trust, who ‘fought the jet lag to explore the nightlife in Freemont Street, where life comes at you fast’.
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