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Prime Minister Calls for Political Unity to Help ‘Kickstart’ Social Care Reform
Burnham will call for a cross-party plan and a public consultation as Age UK says 2 million older people in England have unmet care needs.
- On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will set out details of his plan to overhaul England's social care system, aiming to foster cross-party collaboration to address the long-standing sector crisis.
- Facing an ageing population and 13,600 hospital beds blocked daily by patients awaiting care, Burnham seeks to end decades of government inaction that has left two million people with unmet needs.
- Conservative shadow health secretary Stuart Andrew and the Liberal Democrats accepted invitations to collaborate, though Andrew conditioned support on avoiding "yet more tax rises and borrowing" to fund reforms.
- Reform UK leader Nigel Farage criticized his party's exclusion, claiming the meeting represents "uniparty in action" and accusing Burnham of conspiring with the establishment to force further tax increases on Britons.
- Baroness Louise Casey is leading an independent review to recommend improvements for a National Care Service, with interim findings expected later this year to inform the reform agenda.
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Burnham pledges to fix England’s ‘unfair’ adult care system
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged on Wednesday to overhaul England’s adult social care system, saying he wanted to work with other parties to better fund a service where costs for users had become as unfair as those for U.S. healthcare. Successive governments have failed to reform adult social care, for which families can pay […]
·Nicosia, Cyprus
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