As expected, Andy Burnham (Secretary of State for Health) did, indeed, announce the Government White Paper on setting up a National Care Service and the funding behind it. I haven’t had time to read up on too much apart from the reports around it. Focus seems to be around a workable national standard and decision tool [...]

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