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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2013
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 2,022
Alt Empordà 74 1 1,864
Alt Penedès 36 1 2,939
Alt Urgell 10 1 2,090
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,329
Anoia 39 1 3,022
Bages 79 2 2,324
Baix Camp 75 3 2,542
Baix Ebre 35 2 2,277
Baix Empordà 67 1 1,958
Baix Llobregat 253 8 3,161
Baix Penedès 31 1 3,232
Barcelonès 1,226 46 1,799
Berguedà 21 1 1,911
Cerdanya 9 0 2,023
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,064
Garraf 40 1 3,607
Garrigues 12 0 1,652
Garrotxa 26 1 2,129
Gironès 76 4 2,389
Maresme 140 3 3,093
Montsià 25 0 2,809
Noguera 22 0 1,788
Osona 62 1 2,476
Pallars Jussà 6 0 2,212
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,809
Pla d'Urgell 12 1 3,066
Pla de l'Estany 18 0 1,748
Priorat 10 0 959
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,520
Ripollès 13 1 1,983
Segarra 10 0 2,284
Segrià 77 5 2,684
Selva 63 1 2,677
Solsonès 6 0 2,253
Tarragonès 94 2 2,648
Terra Alta 11 0 1,111
Urgell 16 0 2,285
Val d'Aran 5 0 1,988
Vallès Occidental 248 5 3,604
Vallès Oriental 124 3 3,231
Catalonia 3,125 98 2,387
Metropolità 1,991 65 2,377
Comarques Gironines 337 9 2,172
Camp de Tarragona 211 6 2,437
Terres de l'Ebre 86 3 2,151
Ponent 149 6 2,430
Comarques Centrals 168 4 2,326
Alt Pirineu i Aran 37 1 1,988
Penedès 146 4 3,207
Barcelona 2,267 72 2,417
Girona 338 10 2,209
Lleida 192 6 2,264
Tarragona 328 10 2,436
Source: Departament de Salut. Servei Català de la Salut. Idescat.

Last update: October 1, 2014.

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.