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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2011
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 2,011
Alt Empordà 75 1 1,785
Alt Penedès 34 1 3,121
Alt Urgell 10 1 2,095
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,400
Anoia 38 1 3,092
Bages 78 2 2,347
Baix Camp 76 3 2,488
Baix Ebre 35 2 2,296
Baix Empordà 67 1 1,925
Baix Llobregat 248 8 3,205
Baix Penedès 30 1 3,309
Barcelonès 1,227 46 1,814
Berguedà 20 1 2,064
Cerdanya 10 0 1,806
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,087
Garraf 40 2 3,599
Garrigues 12 0 1,637
Garrotxa 26 1 2,112
Gironès 74 4 2,424
Maresme 137 3 3,146
Montsià 25 0 2,802
Noguera 21 0 1,853
Osona 61 1 2,522
Pallars Jussà 6 0 2,297
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,832
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 2,030
Pla de l'Estany 12 1 2,584
Priorat 10 0 974
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,514
Ripollès 13 1 2,008
Segarra 10 0 2,300
Segrià 77 5 2,654
Selva 59 1 2,814
Solsonès 6 0 2,292
Tarragonès 92 2 2,669
Terra Alta 11 0 1,158
Urgell 16 0 2,270
Val d'Aran 5 0 1,959
Vallès Occidental 242 5 3,634
Vallès Oriental 120 3 3,299
Catalonia 3,095 99 2,402
Metropolità 1,974 65 2,394
Comarques Gironines 326 10 2,209
Camp de Tarragona 210 6 2,426
Terres de l'Ebre 86 3 2,161
Ponent 154 5 2,329
Comarques Centrals 165 4 2,375
Alt Pirineu i Aran 38 1 1,950
Penedès 142 5 3,288
Barcelona 2,244 73 2,498
Girona 334 10 2,385
Lleida 191 6 2,288
Tarragona 326 10 2,514
Source: Departament de Salut. Servei Català de la Salut. Idescat.

Last update: October 23, 2012.

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.