The creation of a single, democratically accountable and transparent governance system would revitalise involvement in these services.
The country's referral and peripheral health units are fully functioning, the cold chain system has been revitalised with the introduction of solar powered refrigerators for vaccine preservation in accessible and remote areas, training of health personnel, monitoring of mortality and morbidity patterns and provision of essential of essential drugs.
From extra competition in education (with new free schools and academies) to the overhaul of the benefits system, public services are being revitalised.
Under Labour, the rationale – largely borrowed from America and its philanthropic culture – was that private money could revitalise a cash-starved system.
And it raises equally challenging questions about the notion that the introduction of the single transferable voting system of PR in 2007 would revitalise local democracy.
If Labour were to commit to a long-term financing solution for the NHS ahead of the general election, the promise to revitalise Britain's unique system of socialised medicine could provide further glue to bind the UK together.
While Leonid Brezhnev was content to maintain the centralised structure of the Soviet planned economy, Kosygin attempted to revitalise the ailing economic system by decentralising management.
Now the greater complexity of the super-jumbo has shown up the inherent weaknesses in Airbus's production system, just as it faces a revitalised Boeing and a weaker dollar.
Pinching an idea from another oval ball game from across the pond will probably not go down with rugby's traditionalists, but few can deny that the rule has revitalised an ageing conversion system in the NFL.
For as little as the equivalent of $5 you too can play a part in revitalising Iraq's education system.
