23/10/2025
IELTS WRITING TASK 1
The table compares medical staffing and bed count per 1000 people, along with the occupied bed days on average, in Austria, France, and Sweden between 1980 and 2000.
Over two decades, although Swedish hospitals had the highest admission capacity and the most human resources, their patients stayed hospitalized significantly longer than French and Austrian peers. France, on the other hand, was increasing their facility while shortening treatment duration, with which Austria struggled to keep pace.
In particular, Swedish hospitals supplied between 3.0 and 3.8 physicians and between 6.4 and 6.9 hospital beds for every thousand people throughout the period, consistently maintaining the highest levels of both human resources and admission capacity. This rate remained relatively stable, peaking slightly in the final year for both metrics. France and Austria, conversely, saw divergent trends. France experienced a sharp, continuous decline in physicians, dropping by nearly half from 2.4 to 1.3 per thousand, even as it embarked on an aggressive expansion of its bed infrastructure, which multiplied by eightfold from 0.2 to 1.6. Meanwhile, Austria's physician count saw only a marginal, incremental rise to 1.0 per thousand, though its bed provision more than doubled from 1.4 to 3.7.
The average duration of hospitalization demonstrates a clear efficiency contrast. France registered a steady, sharp reduction in patient stay, falling from 9 days in 1980 to just 5 days in 2000, establishing the shortest duration. Conversely, Sweden recorded the longest occupied bed days, beginning at 23 days, decreasing to 18 in 1990, and then rising again to 21 days by the century's close. Austria's length of inpatient care showed the most dramatic volatility, plummeting three-fold from 18 days to a low of 6 days in 1990, before experiencing a minor recovery to 8 days in the final year.
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