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Saying the program was scrapped is a bit off. It makes it sound like nothing has come out of the project at all.

Choose and Book is widely in use, the Spine exists, as well as the N3 network.

Data format and transfer standards are coming into play now. So instead of one system to rule them all, it's working towards interop. Which probably should have been the overall goal to begin with.

People like to think of the NHS as a monolith, but it's really hundreds of tiny fiefdoms.

Tiny fiefdoms all on 172.16

They could easily have picked ipv6 and done it the smart way. Oh how things could have been.

A tenth of 12B would be 1.2B. This is a hundredth.

Apologies, physicists are often off by an order of magnitude ;)

The US has contributed some nice failures as well. For example, caBIG ($300M+):

https://www.google.com/search?q=cabig+failure

This is widely reported size of the waste, but as I understand it, because the program was cancelled 'only' £2bn was wasted.

Relevant recent news:

http://www.nao.org.uk/report/review-of-the-final-benefits-st...