Providing the entire population with the same accessibility to services of general interest is
among the priorities of EU policy. Among these services, those concerned with medical
treatment occupy a special place due to their social and economic importance. The study
raises the issue of modelling the population's spatial accessibility to medical services in the
North-Eastern Region of Romania. A trans-scalar methodology that has been tailored to the
speci?c features of the Romanian medical system was employed for computing indexes of
accessibility. The methodology brings together into one synthetic indicator ?ve hierarchical
levels of analysis, the geographical proximity of service centres, their degree of attractiveness
and the potential need for medical services at local level. The results highlight areas with
different levels of accessibility to medical services and their dysfunctionalities according to
each variable employed in the analysis.