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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2003
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 1,688
Alt Empordà 68 1 1,548
Alt Penedès 33 1 2,614
Alt Urgell 9 1 2,155
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,186
Anoia 35 1 2,796
Bages 69 2 2,321
Baix Camp 72 3 2,109
Baix Ebre 33 2 2,082
Baix Empordà 53 1 2,046
Baix Llobregat 227 11 3,164
Baix Penedès 25 0 2,734
Barcelonès 1,226 42 1,727
Berguedà 20 1 1,930
Cerdanya 10 0 1,497
Conca de Barberà 10 0 1,920
Garraf 33 2 3,500
Garrigues 12 0 1,588
Garrotxa 26 1 1,883
Gironès 69 4 2,138
Maresme 111 3 3,364
Montsià 23 0 2,577
Noguera 21 0 1,673
Osona 57 1 2,361
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,763
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,595
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 1,703
Pla de l'Estany 12 1 2,180
Priorat 10 0 923
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,448
Ripollès 12 1 2,150
Segarra 9 0 2,192
Segrià 75 4 2,271
Selva 48 1 2,609
Solsonès 5 0 2,398
Tarragonès 89 2 2,154
Terra Alta 11 0 1,123
Urgell 16 0 1,993
Val d'Aran 6 0 1,358
Vallès Occidental 224 5 3,422
Vallès Oriental 104 4 3,249
Catalonia 2,932 97 2,236
Metropolità 1,958 68 2,306
Comarques Gironines 288 10 2,039
Camp de Tarragona 228 6 2,094
Terres de l'Ebre 82 3 1,976
Ponent 151 4 2,032
Comarques Centrals 186 5 2,383
Alt Pirineu i Aran 39 1 1,661
Barcelona 2,139 73 2,326
Girona 298 10 2,045
Lleida 185 5 1,978
Tarragona 310 9 2,076
Source: Departament de Salut. Servei Català de la Salut.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hospital pharmacy
Pharmacy service within a general hospital, whether public or private.
Pharmacy
Private health establishment of public interest where the managing pharmacist (owner of the establishment, aided, if necessary, by assistants and auxiliaries) must provide the population with a series of basic services. The purpose of a pharmacy is to promote health through the rational use of medications, and its inherent and primordial function is to provide medications.

Methodological aspects

Health establishments require authorisation from the Ministry of Healtht, which is granted by resolution of the Ministry's director general of Regulation, Planning and Health Resources.

Pharmacies must ensure that certain compulsory safety measures are observed. Therefore, before opening or relocating such an establishment, authorisation must be requested. Likewise, when making reformations to essential or compulsory elements of the pharmacy, these must be reported and authorisation for the same must be requested.