{"id":8171,"date":"2025-04-10T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/8171\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:28:11","slug":"which-eu-regions-have-the-highest-and-lowest-hospital-concentration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/8171\/","title":{"rendered":"Which EU regions have the highest and lowest hospital concentration?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest Eurostat data on hospitals in the EU is relatively good news: More than 83% of the bloc’s population lives near a medical facility.<\/p>\n

In 124 administrations, all residents live within a 15-minute drive of the nearest hospital.<\/p>\n

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The highest concentration is in Germany, with 77%. <\/p>\n

The country features 96 administrations where 100% of people live within a 15-minute drive of a hospital, mostly in the western and southern parts of the country. <\/p>\n

Neighbouring Belgium and the Netherlands follow with six provinces each, trailed by France and Greece, with four. In Greece, these administrations are all in the Athens region.<\/p>\n

Malta, Italy, Spain and Poland are next with two departments each.<\/p>\n

Greece and Romania report lowest hospital density<\/p>\n

However, some places are not that lucky. In 97 EU administrations, over 50% of residents need to take longer journeys just to access healthcare. <\/p>\n

Most of these departments – 21 – are in Romania. 15 are in Greece, nine in both Croatia and Spain, eight in Poland, and six each in Ireland, Portugal and Slovenia.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

And in seven particularly underserved provinces, only 10% of patients live within a fifteen-minute drive of a hospital. Four of them are in Greece and three in Romania. <\/p>\n

Greece’s healthcare access is particularly alarming, with just 46 doctors per 100,000 residents, making it the lowest rate in Europe.<\/p>\n

The highest rates, according to Eurostat, are in the Netherlands (183), Austria (146), Cyprus (138) and France (137).<\/p>\n

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