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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2009
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 2,046
Alt Empordà 71 1 1,951
Alt Penedès 34 1 3,069
Alt Urgell 10 1 2,204
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,458
Anoia 37 1 3,165
Bages 76 2 2,430
Baix Camp 75 3 2,523
Baix Ebre 34 2 2,404
Baix Empordà 63 1 2,111
Baix Llobregat 248 8 3,200
Baix Penedès 31 1 3,189
Barcelonès 1,227 46 1,835
Berguedà 20 1 2,087
Cerdanya 10 0 1,866
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,150
Garraf 36 2 3,974
Garrigues 12 0 1,707
Garrotxa 26 1 2,128
Gironès 71 4 2,532
Maresme 130 3 3,281
Montsià 25 0 2,888
Noguera 21 0 1,915
Osona 60 1 2,540
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,977
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,906
Pla d'Urgell 12 1 2,513
Pla de l'Estany 18 0 2,058
Priorat 10 0 1,002
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,600
Ripollès 13 1 2,063
Segarra 10 0 2,283
Segrià 77 5 2,640
Selva 54 1 3,137
Solsonès 4 0 3,440
Tarragonès 91 2 2,723
Terra Alta 11 0 1,177
Urgell 16 0 2,292
Val d'Aran 5 0 2,059
Vallès Occidental 235 5 3,740
Vallès Oriental 119 3 3,311
Catalonia 3,053 99 2,449
Metropolità 2,029 68 2,460
Comarques Gironines 316 9 2,364
Camp de Tarragona 239 7 2,563
Terres de l'Ebre 85 3 2,245
Ponent 148 6 2,341
Comarques Centrals 197 5 2,587
Alt Pirineu i Aran 39 1 1,970
Barcelona 2,221 73 2,471
Girona 318 10 2,352
Lleida 190 6 2,297
Tarragona 324 10 2,479
Source: Departament de Salut. Servei Català de la Salut.

Last update: June 21, 2010.

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.