QMC car park a 'pointless lighthouse'
The multi-storey car park was closed in September after hospital bosses feared it may collapse.
Even though no one is using it, bosses have been forced to keep the lights on for health and safety reasons.
A spokesman for the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the QMC, said it cost £60 a week to keep the car park lit.
He said: "We take patient, visitor and staff safety extremely seriously.
"On closure of the multi-storey car park in September, 2008, to ensure that the safety and security systems were effective the Trust identified that as an additional safety precaution the lights would need to remain on to allow the security cameras to monitor the multi-storey car park at all times.
"This is in the interests of public safety and to ensure the building remains as secure as the rest of the site."
The building was shut permanently after a survey revealed its 1970s concrete structure had become dangerously weak.
It has up to 750 patient and visitor parking spaces which are used by as many as 2,000 people per day.
A 45-year-old hospital worker, who did not want to be named, said the money would be better used on paying for items for patients.
He said: "All the lights at the defunct car park at Queen's hospital are being left on overnight.
"It's like some form of pointless urban lighthouse. Anybody using the hospital is going to see it.
"In this day and age with us all trying to be green, what a waste of energy and public money that could be spent on pillows for patients on the hospital wards."
Terry Gallagher, 58, of Harwood Close, Arnold, regularly visits the hospital's Clinical Nutrition Unit.
He said: "They are on 24 hours a day. It's an absolute disgrace. The hospital is short of money and should be making savings.
"The car park is secured by fencing it should be secure, and there should be signs outside saying that if anybody goes inside at their own risk."
QMC multi-storey car park
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