Table 2.

Indicators of shortage of physicians calculated at two time points in 2007 and 2008 in the Finnish health centres

	2007		2008
	n	%	n	%
Position held by permanent physician	2301	62	2302	62
Physicians’ services purchased from an enterprise	402	11	436	12
Position held by a locum physician	527	14	498	13
No need for a locum	116	3	73	2
Calculated shortage	358	10	409	11
Total	3704	100	3718	100