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Number of acute care hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants in 2015 and percentage of beds per 100,000 lifted ( or added ) since 2000

2015 Variation between 2000 and 2015

Lithuania Belgium Austria Germany Slovakia Hungary Latvia Estonia

Czech Republic Switzerland

Slovenia Poland France

Luxembourg Denmark

Italy Finland Greece Portugal Sweden

Netherlands Spain

Ireland

-27 %

-17 % + 2 %

-42 %

-37 % -22 % -5 % -11 %

+ 18 %

-19 %

-30 % -19 % -5 % -20 %

-24 % -31 % -45 % -39 %

-26 %

-23 %

-17 % -10 %

-23 %

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 number of days when hospital beds are occupied during the whole year and generally mirrors how intensively hospital capacity is used .

The average rate of acute bed occupancy decreased in Europe between 2000 and 2015 . The reduction was between + 3.4 p . p . in Greece and Italy and + 0.1 in France and -5.4 and -0.4 in Latvia and Belgium . In the Netherlands , the decrease in p . p . was about 20.1 . These large variations are usually due to changes in the number of admissions , average length of stay and the extent to which alternatives to full hospitalisation have been developed in each country .

Hospital and healthcare workforce In 2015 , the share of employment in the human health and social work sector on total employment in EU was on average 10.0 %. Unlike in the total economy , the number of workers in this sector had been steadily growing and showed an increase even during the crisis years . Furthermore , the health and social services sector , composed of human health , residential care and social work , has an important economic weight as it generates around 7.0 % of the total economic output in the EU 28 and appears to have suffered from the crisis according to the European Commission supplement to the quarterly review on “ Health and social services from an employment and economic perspective ” ( December 2014 ).

The review also underlines that the health and social services sector is facing several challenges due to the fact that the workforce is ageing faster than in other sectors . Indeed , the vast majority of the people working in human health and social sector belong to the age group 25 – 49 years , while the share of people above 50 years increased from approximately 27 % to 32 % between 2008 and 2013 in EU 28 . Moreover , there are large imbalances in skills levels and working patterns and recruitment and retention are conditioned by demanding working conditions . The financial constraints in most European countries are leading to a decrease in the resources available for healthcare chart 11

Comparison between the rate of inpatient admissions per 100 and average length of stay : Year 2015

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Inpatient care discharge per 100

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