The softening up process can take many years but is an important preparatory phase in creating readiness for policy change when the 'problem, policy and politics' streams align and a policy window opens.
These results may be seen as an indication of lacking readiness to change, and suggests that more work need to be done to create such readiness within the workforce.
Sequestration would create significant readiness issues, reducing the force by tens of thousands of personnel, freezing compensation, reducing healthcare, and eliminating important family support programs.
Banishing bureaucracy is not an easy task and requires a multi-step, multi-engagement program to create a readiness for change and reinforce new habits with peer support and pressure, sponsorship and community.
However, the first step in any change effort is to create a readiness for change in the present situation.
The normative re-education, in line Bernhard and Walsh [ 1], was used in order to help nurses value the new knowledge and create a readiness for learning.
Activities to make the task demands comprehensible, to allocate adequate resources and to operationalize the situational factors that are hindering the capability to implement change, may create increased readiness to change within the workforce [ 19].
I believe it is important that, here in the European Parliament, we should now promote further knowledge of these complex and exciting developments and create a readiness to implement the necessary changes.
The charity called for a global strategy to help push the need for emergency aid up the agenda to create world-readiness for the next public health crisis.
Governments may however be more open to receive funding in the initial phases of the PBF reform process to invest in capacity building and in structures to create PBF-readiness.
