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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2012
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 2,039
Alt Empordà 75 1 1,848
Alt Penedès 34 1 3,112
Alt Urgell 10 1 2,105
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,369
Anoia 39 1 3,033
Bages 78 2 2,370
Baix Camp 75 3 2,558
Baix Ebre 35 2 2,314
Baix Empordà 67 1 1,970
Baix Llobregat 249 7 3,217
Baix Penedès 31 1 3,241
Barcelonès 1,226 45 1,817
Berguedà 20 1 2,041
Cerdanya 10 0 1,864
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,093
Garraf 40 1 3,621
Garrigues 12 0 1,665
Garrotxa 26 1 2,127
Gironès 76 4 2,394
Maresme 138 3 3,143
Montsià 25 0 2,835
Noguera 21 0 1,891
Osona 62 1 2,481
Pallars Jussà 6 0 2,294
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,826
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 2,051
Pla de l'Estany 12 1 2,612
Priorat 10 0 980
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,543
Ripollès 13 1 2,005
Segarra 10 0 2,307
Segrià 77 5 2,686
Selva 61 1 2,786
Solsonès 6 0 2,265
Tarragonès 93 2 2,682
Terra Alta 11 0 1,128
Urgell 16 0 2,291
Val d'Aran 5 0 1,996
Vallès Occidental 244 5 3,668
Vallès Oriental 122 3 3,288
Catalonia 3,107 96 2,414
Metropolità 1,979 63 2,405
Comarques Gironines 330 10 2,228
Camp de Tarragona 210 6 2,461
Terres de l'Ebre 86 3 2,179
Ponent 154 5 2,358
Comarques Centrals 166 4 2,368
Alt Pirineu i Aran 38 1 1,970
Penedès 144 4 3,260
Barcelona 2,251 70 2,447
Girona 338 10 2,219
Lleida 191 6 2,286
Tarragona 327 10 2,461
Source: Departament de Salut. Servei Català de la Salut. Idescat.

Last update: November 6, 2013.

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.