Table 1

Rheumatology training centres in Europe completing the UEMS/EBR questionnaire in 1999

	France	UK	Spain	Italy	Netherlands	Switzerland	Portugal	Sweden	Norway	Finland
No of centres	45	64	32	12	4	18	3	4	3	1
Permanent staff^1-150	138	177	183	81	17	46	22	37	15	3
Attending^1-150	319	49	24	26	3	12	0	3	1	0
Trainee^1-150	145	104	106	108	10	61	7	19	10	1
Beds^1-150	1 904	785	241	229	52	868	580	129	62	20
Inpatients/year^1-150	82 631	19 416	9 071	11 757	1 020	12 686		3 443	2 023	700
Outpatients/year^1-150	287 448	462 571	409 017	78 874	38 000	69 637		42 390	16 066	6500

↵1-150 Numbers are the sum of the numbers given by each centre.