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Our health system can only survive if it allows private companies and others to innovate, improve quality and reduce costs

The bill of health and social will be the subject of heated debate in its report stage in the House of Lords today. However, the real health problem should be lower on the landscape of the NHS over the next three years, and more on the survival of our universal health system and equitable for the next three decades.

The deficit of 20 billion pounds against the NHS over the next three years is certainly important, but the elephant in the room is the sustainability of the sector.

In Britain, which spent nearly £ 40 billion in health care in 2000. About 10 years later, we spend about 120 billion pounds. Economic value is defined as quality divided by price. We tripled the denominator of the value equation. However, it is difficult to say the application - defined as clinical outcomes and patient experience in healthcare -. To keep pace

We have been here before in Britain. When an industry has become unbearable, we have broken the barriers to entry, stopped pumping artificial obsolete, and allowed new operators to reach new solutions and thrive in the face of our global competitors. Accordingly, we have in our small country of 60 million people in some of the most successful telecommunications world, retail, financial services, professional and creative.

NHS, too, is a professional service come to re-engineering. In contrast, manufacturing teaches a lesson in good health. When we protect our old industries with subsidies and inflexible laws, we risk losing everything. British factories are now majority owned by foreigners.

When innovation is necessary in a sector, it is understandable that those involved in the current system are uncertain about their future. However, neither the organizations nor the employees holding should fear opening the sector to new ideas, as both tend to do better in areas where the UK remains ahead of the curve overall rejuvenation. Just compare the fate of the British telecommunications industry and its participants both powerful British Leyland. Freeing a sector is simply to give professionals the freedom to create a new chapter in his career. In health, the future will be created by persons who provide services today. Therefore, should spend less energy to preserve existing structures and institutions and focus more on the release of its participants to create the new.

In fact, the search for new solutions in health care gives us an excellent opportunity to create a more just society. So far, only two square miles of the city and Whitehall - control 90% of our assets. This concentration of ownership is unique among developed countries, and has unacceptable consequences. For example, the richest region of Germany is twice as wealthy as the poorest in France the proportion is four times the United States five times. In Britain, there is a 10 times embarrassing