A FAILING hospital which blew £58,000 on a Las Vegas junket is going through a rap from NHS bosses.
We advised yesterday how 14 workers have been despatched to Sin Metropolis for the taxpayer-funded US journey.
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Officers on the Princess Alexandra Hospital — with a £13million black gap — stated the four-day jaunt was to find out about a brand new IT system.
NHS bosses will probe the hospital in Harlow, Essex.
A spokesman stated: “We might be talking to the belief concerning the journey and to remind them of the necessity to guarantee all visits are completely needed, present worth for cash to taxpayers and profit our sufferers.”
Hospital workers jetted to the the four-day Oracle CloudWorld convention.
They stayed for 5 nights on the £400-a-night MGM New York-New York Lodge on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Together with flights and meals, the outing price £58,476.
Tory MP Nigel Mills demanded an ”pressing enquiry” into how the journey got here to be signed off.
He stated: “This can be a ridiculous waste of cash.
“It is arduous to see how attending a convention of that sort within the UK can be of use.
“At a time when budgets are constrained, it is a horrible error of judgement and pressing enquiries are wanted as to who signed this off and why.”
Phil Holland, chief data officer at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Belief, stated: “The convention was the one alternative to see our new affected person care document system in motion with its builders and study from different hospitals already utilizing it.
“A staff of 14 individuals joined to make sure that the system works for all of our knowledgeable areas and that we have been in a position to study from others to maximise the advantages for our sufferers.
“No frontline care finances was spent on the journey.
“We’re making a big funding in a brand new digital well being document to assist enhance our affected person care, which can draw data from a number of techniques.
“This might be one of many greatest transformation programmes our hospital has ever seen.”