In which European countries is it easiest to get a doctor's appointment?

The European health sector is facing a workforce crisis. With an ageing doctor population, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel.

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00:00Which European country has the oldest medical workforce?

00:09The European health sector is facing a workforce crisis and with an aging doctor

00:15population there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel.

00:2040% of doctors in 12 EU countries are at least

00:2555 years old.

00:27Italy and Bulgaria have the highest rate of physicians in that age range.

00:3254%

00:34followed by Latvia, Estonia and Germany. On the other end of the spectrum

00:40Malta reported the most under 35 doctors

00:4546% followed by Turkey, Romania and the Netherlands. The latest Eurostat data

00:51says the EU has about

00:541.8 million doctors with

00:57480,000 general practitioners. The best chances to get a GP appointment in a timely manner

01:04appear to be in the Netherlands, the country with the highest rate of doctors

01:11183 for every 100,000 residents followed by Austria, Cyprus and France with only

01:1946 GPs for every

01:21500,000 people. Greece has the lowest reported rate in Europe followed by Montenegro,

01:28Iceland and Bulgaria.