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Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham speaking to the media outside Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
IT WOULD be “immoral” not to reform the social care system, which has been revealed as “broken” by the coronavirus pandemic, former health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
A new approach, more closely integrating the social care system with the NHS, is the only way to cope with the challenge of an ageing society, said Mr Burnham.
Mr Burnham is now mayor of Greater Manchester, which has pioneered a much closer relationship between the NHS and social care, developing the “sense of a single system.”
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Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism