£250,000 spent on Southmead's 'unreadable clock'

NHS bosses have been criticised for spending £250,000 on a clock for the atrium of the new hospital at Southmead that staff say is impossible to read.

The clock displays the time through 12 illuminated rings suspended in each of the Hospital's three atriums.

Southmead Hospital have defended the sculpture, designed by artist Tobias Rehberger. Chief Executive Andrea Young says that the piece cost a small proportion of the new hospital's arts budget, and that visitors have responded well to the design.