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Burnham says social and palliative care needs to be fixed before assisted dying is debated
Burnham said the review will report next year as he seeks workforce reforms and a cross-party deal on funding social care.
- On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, Prime Minister Andy Burnham accelerated Baroness Louise Casey's independent adult social care review to report next year and launched cross-party talks with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to build consensus on reform.
- Around 408,985 people await social care assessments while vacancies reach 96,000 daily, prompting Burnham's strategy as he warned the NHS "will collapse" without fundamental reform of the current system.
- Adult social care net expenditure reached £28.7 billion in 2024/25, with two million new support requests in the year to March 2025, demonstrating the urgency of reform for a system Burnham described as "not defensible."
- The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats accepted the invitation to collaborate, while Reform UK leader Nigel Farage criticized his exclusion, accusing Burnham of "conspiring behind closed doors" to impose tax rises.
- Burnham acknowledged that "some of what we want to do will require difficult, difficult decisions" on tax, vowing to "do more" with existing resources first to avoid repeating past "death tax" controversies.
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(London=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = British Prime Minister Andy Burnham stated that the UK's social welfare system, including care for the elderly, is "as unfair as the US healthcare system," and [he/she]...
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The UK Prime Minister wants to implement a national system to prevent the financial ruin of many elderly people.
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