You can't claim incompetence is 'rife' and then link to something which has 'scandal' in the title. If incompetence was rife, it wouldn't be a scandal. The NHS

You can't claim incompetence is 'rife' and then link to something which has 'scandal' in the title. If incompetence was rife, it wouldn't be a scandal. The NHS has its problems, as does private health care. However, I would argue that the problems which the NHS has are almost all directly related to chronic under-funding. Case in point: my girlfriend's grandfather recently had a stint in hospital. They discharged him, and then 2 days later he was sent back in with a different problem. He was put on a ward directly below the ward he had been on just 3 days earlier. The nurses on this ward had no idea that he had just been in hospital, no idea about his medication, and no idea about the treatment he had received. The problem here is that due to budget cuts and under-funding, the NHS cannot invest in any kind of consistent or worth-while patient tracking and monitoring system. Everything is on paper in crusty filing cabinets, and what little technology they do have is already outdated and unnecessarily cumbersome. The NHS is failing because populist politics have crippled it in essentially every single way that matters.