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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2017
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 2,000
Alt Empordà 74 1 1,888
Alt Penedès 37 1 2,890
Alt Urgell 10 1 2,030
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,276
Anoia 42 1 2,816
Aran 5 0 1,997
Bages 73 2 2,399
Baix Camp 75 3 2,500
Baix Ebre 36 2 2,172
Baix Empordà 69 1 1,926
Baix Llobregat 260 8 3,131
Baix Penedès 31 1 3,253
Barcelonès 1,223 44 1,838
Berguedà 21 1 1,858
Cerdanya 10 0 1,762
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,004
Garraf 42 1 3,512
Garrigues 12 0 1,581
Garrotxa 26 1 2,161
Gironès 81 4 2,322
Maresme 148 3 3,000
Moianès 9 0 1,475
Montsià 27 1 2,500
Noguera 22 0 1,760
Osona 62 1 2,525
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,897
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,737
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 2,034
Pla de l'Estany 14 1 2,267
Priorat 10 0 935
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,480
Ripollès 13 1 1,923
Segarra 10 0 2,274
Segrià 80 5 2,601
Selva 68 1 2,468
Solsonès 6 0 2,227
Tarragonès 100 2 2,505
Terra Alta 11 0 1,058
Urgell 17 0 2,119
Vallès Occidental 266 5 3,421
Vallès Oriental 131 3 3,078
Catalonia 3,200 97 2,361
Barcelona 2,313 70 2,411
Girona 353 10 2,141
Lleida 197 6 2,195
Tarragona 337 11 2,349
Source: Ministry of Health.

Last update: May 8, 2018.

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.