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Re: point 2

While the healthcare is centralised, the data is not, and often poorly federated between a multitude of organisations. Scotland has unified this much more and is far better placed to monitor for efficacy and side effects.

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Didn't an agency store data and loss data due to using an old format of excel file

Yes, they hit the legacy 65,000 row limit for .XLS files: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988

As I read it, it was actually (and amazingly) a 65,000 column limit!

I'm pretty sure the "column limit" claim was a false online theory that just stuck around because we're in such a post-truth era that even the definition of post-truth is itself post-truth... The reputable news coverage all said it was the number of rows that was the problem.

Now that you mention it, the story does have that "too inherently viral to be true" smell.

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