Other important non-medical efforts include changes at the work place, provided patients inform their employer, and themselves accept a need for such changes [ 7].
But Brailsford, who played a pivotal role in British Cycling's run of Olympic success before launching Team Sky, said that he accepted there was a need for more transparency in how the therapeutic use exemption system worked.
Some of the most voluble trade union leaders don't accept there is a need for any spending cuts at all, not a position the Labour leader can afford to be associated with and not the position he has taken.
But it accepts there is a need for improvement and is trying to achieve that in its bilateral negotiations.
The Egyptian government's softer and more cooperative approach in the last few months suggests, however, that it now accepts an urgent need for reputation management.
But even the Alzheimer's Society, which found the recent report distressing, accepted there is sometimes a need for patients to be put on these drugs.
"The commissioner in his report accepted that there was a need for the tasks I had set my son, that he was qualified to undertake them and that he did indeed do so.
"The fundamentals of our economy are strong," he said, although he accepted that there was a need for better financial education on the part of mortgage borrowers whose struggle to keep up repayments is at the root of the crisis.
The court accepted that there was a need for finality in challenges to election decisions "for not only must the electors have a representative in Parliament, but in times where majorities are small, the absence of a Member can be significant" (para 46).
It is also widely accepted that there is a need for an early warning system able to play the role of the "watchdog".
