Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said the NHS will 'collapse' unless action is taken to fix the social care system in England. In his first major interview since entering No 10, Mr Burnham declined to set a timeline for introducing care reforms. Speaking to the BBC, he stated that the NHS will never return to 'good waiting time standards until we fix social care'. He added: 'I can’t put a timeline on it right here, right now. If we don’t do it, the NHS will collapse under the weight of trying to care for people who’ve really not really needed to end up in the NHS system.'
