UK PM Burnham vows to reform social care system

LONDON - British Prime Minister Andy Burnham vowed in an interview aired on July 27 to overhaul the country’s social care system to ease pressure on the beleaguered National Health Service.Unlike the publicly funded NHS, which is struggling with long waiting lists and stretched resources, social care for elderly and disabled people is largely privatised in Britain.“Whatever political capital I have, I will put into fixing broken social care, and I would not want to leave office without having brought in the substantial change,” Burnham told the BBC in an interview one week after taking office.Burnham, whose father has Alzheimer’s, has campaigned to fix the social care system for years, including as a health secretary under Gordon Brown between 2009 and 2010.He had proposed the creation of