India, July 30 -- British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Wednesday used a visit to a social care centre in London to set out plans to accelerate the creation of a new National Care Service, along the lines of the state-funded National Health Service (NHS).

With his elderly father battling with Alzheimer's disease, this latest agenda is seen as very personal for the new Labour leader who took charge at 10 Downing Street last week. Burnham has also called a cross-party summit with Opposition party leaders over the issue, highlighting his collaborative approach as being focused on "problem solving rather than political point scoring". "I just don't accept that this problem is too big to solve. What we need is a new way of doing politics whe...