The Danish GPs demonstrated a much more positive attitude to government guidelines, and they appear more appreciative of government efforts to implement priority setting through guidelines.
As these examples illustrate, development assistance to implement priority interventions for NCDs is likely to involve collaboration with a range of ministries, including health, justice, finance and education.
There will be significant constraints to rapidly building up a health sector workforce able to implement priority interventions at high coverage levels.
To address this, the Australian Governments have committed to implementing priority actions through the National Maternity Services Plan (NMSP), including the provision of primary maternity services in rural and remote communities [ 16].
Of course, the government needs to be serious about this plan; it will need to have the right staff in place, with the ability to implement CAED priorities and manage the system transparently, and it will need to fight any internal corruption.
"The cabinet secretary has been looking at your election manifesto, and will be sending you a separate memo about how to implement your priorities and budget choices.
Newly elected U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris said she's already been in contact with her West Coast colleagues about banding together to implement Democratic priorities in the political era of President-elect Donald Trump.
We intentionally do not consider the policy, budgetary, and jurisdictional decisions required to implement such priorities.
Of course, money is not the only consideration: how the European Union chooses to invest and to implement political priorities to 2020 and beyond will determine Europe's capacity for influencing the world.
"At a local signal level, we can implement priority measures for ambulances, buses, etc - that's a standard feature in some software and has been for years," says Stevens. "However, giving priority to one vehicle makes things slightly worse for all others.
