for this denmark should continue to monitor the equity impact of any major reform affecting health services such as the hospital specialisation reform using its data advantage denmark may wish to pioneer monitoring of the frequency of travel to hospitals for treatment reporting average travel times to the nearest hospital the performance of ambulances and the extent to which patients have had to travel to reach primary care or emergency services as in the netherlands would be important while greater use of mobile teams as in the netherlands and ambulance services as in france come at high unit costs these should be traded off against safety considerations