direct to your inboxThe coronavirus pandemic has exposed the crisis in the "broken" social care system – and it would be "immoral" not to fix it, Andy Burnham has warned.The mayor of Greater Manchester said the only way to cope with an ageing population would be to more closely integrate social care with the NHS.
The former Health Secretary added that he feared it would be a "waste of money" to introduce a new tax or levy to fund the system without fundamental changes to the way care was delivered, The Mirror reports.He said: "I feel that, for the first time since I've been raising issues around social care, I think the country can now see how broken it is.“I think that's one thing that 2020 did reveal, the disparity between hospitals and.