Burnham: New NHS style national care service will be funded by pension reform

The UK prime minister has set out details of his radical plan to create a national care service in England, saying it would be as significant as the creation of the NHS.In a speech at the Labour party’s annual conference in Liverpool, Andy Burnham said the government would fund the policy by altering its pension “triple lock” policy after the next election to free up money.He said his generation of politicians had been too cowardly to sort out the failing social care system, which would break the NHS if it weren’t reformed.Setting out how the flagship social care reforms would work, Burnham said that the service would be free at the point of use, with no care charges paid out of people’s basic state pension.A national social care service would be a “person centred, high quality care service that starts in the home,” he said.Care workers were currently “holding a…