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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2015
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 2,014
Alt Empordà 74 1 1,890
Alt Penedès 36 1 2,949
Alt Urgell 10 1 2,070
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,295
Anoia 41 1 2,864
Aran 5 0 1,985
Bages 73 2 2,392
Baix Camp 75 3 2,507
Baix Ebre 36 2 2,215
Baix Empordà 68 1 1,946
Baix Llobregat 256 8 3,151
Baix Penedès 31 1 3,224
Barcelonès 1,223 48 1,819
Berguedà 21 1 1,882
Cerdanya 10 0 1,787
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,048
Garraf 41 1 3,561
Garrigues 12 0 1,612
Garrotxa 26 1 2,156
Gironès 79 4 2,342
Maresme 145 3 3,031
Moianès 9 0 1,455
Montsià 27 0 2,538
Noguera 22 0 1,778
Osona 62 1 2,499
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,944
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,765
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 2,059
Pla de l'Estany 13 1 2,426
Priorat 10 0 955
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,515
Ripollès 13 1 1,949
Segarra 10 0 2,265
Segrià 80 5 2,617
Selva 65 1 2,593
Solsonès 6 0 2,236
Tarragonès 98 2 2,550
Terra Alta 11 0 1,079
Urgell 17 0 2,136
Vallès Occidental 257 6 3,505
Vallès Oriental 128 3 3,128
Catalonia 3,169 101 2,369
Barcelona 2,291 75 2,411
Girona 346 10 2,176
Lleida 197 6 2,213
Tarragona 335 10 2,373
Source: Ministry of Health.

Last update: November 2, 2016.

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.