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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and provinces 2014
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 2,010
Alt Empordà 74 1 1,840
Alt Penedès 36 1 2,945
Alt Urgell 10 1 2,062
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,318
Anoia 40 1 2,949
Bages 79 2 2,315
Baix Camp 75 3 2,535
Baix Ebre 36 2 2,201
Baix Empordà 67 1 1,936
Baix Llobregat 254 8 3,124
Baix Penedès 31 1 3,248
Barcelonès 1,226 47 1,785
Berguedà 21 1 1,904
Cerdanya 10 0 1,818
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,047
Garraf 41 1 3,518
Garrigues 12 0 1,634
Garrotxa 26 1 2,103
Gironès 78 4 2,306
Maresme 140 3 3,075
Montsià 27 0 2,578
Noguera 22 0 1,775
Osona 63 1 2,428
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,901
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,786
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 2,038
Pla de l'Estany 13 1 2,399
Priorat 10 0 956
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,500
Ripollès 13 1 1,958
Segarra 10 0 2,276
Segrià 79 5 2,611
Selva 65 1 2,574
Solsonès 6 0 2,232
Tarragonès 96 2 2,567
Terra Alta 11 0 1,097
Urgell 16 0 2,266
Val d'Aran 5 0 1,951
Vallès Occidental 255 6 3,489
Vallès Oriental 128 3 3,122
Catalonia 3,154 100 2,350
Barcelona 2,282 74 2,386
Girona 344 10 2,148
Lleida 195 6 2,218
Tarragona 333 10 2,387
Source: Ministry of Health.

Last update: April 14, 2015.

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.