Reva Gudi: I’m a GP – this is what Burnham should do to fix social care instead

I did not arrive at this from a Treasury spreadsheet, but from decades of looking after the elderly in their homes, in care homes, in conversations with families trying to do right by the people they love.

Carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst, Andy Burnham has said in a speech calling for an urgent overhaul of the social care system.