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 ex

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.