Strengths and weaknesses of the acute care systems in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: what can we learn from each other?

Table 1 Numbers and properties of the Dutch and British acute care systems in 2016

	The Netherlands	England
Number of EDs per 100,000 people	0.54^c	0.33
Hospital beds per 1,000 people	2.4^d	2.6
Percentage of GDP spent on healthcare	10.6^d	9.9^d
Available GPs per 10,000 people	5.8	7.6^b
Number of ED visits per year	2,400,000	15,900,000^a
ED attendance rate	14.1	24.2^a
Number of acute admissions per year	840,000	4,300,000
Acute admission rate	4.9	6.6
Percentage of acute admissions for the total ED visits	35.0	27.0^a

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