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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2006
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 1,864
Alt Empordà 68 1 1,767
Alt Penedès 34 1 2,848
Alt Urgell 9 1 2,277
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,326
Anoia 37 1 2,945
Bages 72 2 2,393
Baix Camp 73 3 2,346
Baix Ebre 33 2 2,307
Baix Empordà 55 1 2,180
Baix Llobregat 238 8 3,170
Baix Penedès 27 1 3,174
Barcelonès 1,227 45 1,781
Berguedà 20 1 1,992
Cerdanya 10 0 1,685
Conca de Barberà 10 0 1,999
Garraf 36 2 3,626
Garrigues 12 0 1,601
Garrotxa 26 1 2,014
Gironès 69 4 2,384
Maresme 119 3 3,396
Montsià 23 0 2,790
Noguera 21 0 1,771
Osona 57 1 2,547
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,728
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,760
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 1,871
Pla de l'Estany 12 1 2,335
Priorat 10 0 960
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,465
Ripollès 13 1 2,009
Segarra 9 0 2,368
Segrià 76 5 2,437
Selva 51 1 2,869
Solsonès 4 0 3,272
Tarragonès 90 2 2,438
Terra Alta 11 0 1,147
Urgell 16 0 2,121
Val d'Aran 6 0 1,539
Vallès Occidental 229 5 3,589
Vallès Oriental 110 4 3,336
Catalonia 2,982 99 2,354
Metropolità 1,993 68 2,388
Comarques Gironines 294 10 2,236
Camp de Tarragona 232 7 2,358
Terres de l'Ebre 82 3 2,133
Ponent 152 5 2,175
Comarques Centrals 190 5 2,523
Alt Pirineu i Aran 39 1 1,787
Barcelona 2,178 73 2,399
Girona 302 10 2,220
Lleida 188 6 2,129
Tarragona 314 10 2,299
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.