Executive in the firing line for overambitious Hiss projects

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NHS IT systems have come under heavy fire from the Commons' PublicAccounts Committee. Rob Jones reports on its damning findings.

The millions spent developing hospital information support systems (Hiss) would have been better spent on patient treatment, the Public Accounts Committee reported last week. The committee questi...

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