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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2008
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 1,936
Alt Empordà 71 1 1,819
Alt Penedès 34 1 2,908
Alt Urgell 9 1 2,396
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,374
Anoia 37 1 3,018
Bages 75 2 2,358
Baix Camp 74 3 2,435
Baix Ebre 34 2 2,311
Baix Empordà 60 1 2,108
Baix Llobregat 245 8 3,149
Baix Penedès 28 1 3,246
Barcelonès 1,227 46 1,803
Berguedà 20 1 2,024
Cerdanya 10 0 1,774
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,071
Garraf 36 2 3,787
Garrigues 12 0 1,665
Garrotxa 26 1 2,058
Gironès 71 4 2,389
Maresme 127 3 3,260
Montsià 25 0 2,713
Noguera 22 0 1,754
Osona 58 1 2,537
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,924
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,798
Pla d'Urgell 12 1 2,408
Pla de l'Estany 18 0 1,943
Priorat 10 0 979
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,555
Ripollès 13 1 2,044
Segarra 10 0 2,170
Segrià 76 5 2,507
Selva 53 1 2,975
Solsonès 4 0 3,350
Tarragonès 91 2 2,540
Terra Alta 11 0 1,156
Urgell 16 0 2,188
Val d'Aran 6 0 1,636
Vallès Occidental 234 5 3,615
Vallès Oriental 117 3 3,224
Catalonia 3,033 99 2,377
Metropolità 2,020 68 2,395
Comarques Gironines 312 9 2,200
Camp de Tarragona 235 7 2,353
Terres de l'Ebre 85 3 2,088
Ponent 148 6 2,184
Comarques Centrals 194 5 2,497
Alt Pirineu i Aran 39 1 1,842
Barcelona 2,209 73 2,414
Girona 314 10 2,249
Lleida 190 6 2,179
Tarragona 320 10 2,368
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.