The creation of a sustainable health care system, resistant not only to current but also to future crises, is the leading topic of the debate at the 'Rzeczpospolita' salon devoted to the challenges of building such a system in Poland. Several dozen demands were made - from those concerning the system itself to a dialogue with the Ministry of Health with the participation of all interested parties. 'We have to create mechanisms that will maintain balance and structures that interact with each other. The foundations of such a balanced system are integrated care and bridges between its elements. We have been saddling the patient with it, but it is not the patient who should be integrating these elements - said Dr. Małgorzata Gałązka-Sobotka, director of the Institute of Healthcare Management at the Lazarski University in Warsaw.