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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
2010 3,069 99 2,448
2009 3,053 99 2,449
2008 3,033 99 2,377
2007 3,004 99 2,387
2006 2,982 99 2,354
2005 2,965 98 2,319
2004 2,948 97 2,277
2003 2,932 97 2,236
2002 2,915 97 2,198
2001 2,905 96 2,139
Source:
2001-2002: Departament de Sanitat i Seguretat Social. Servei Català de la Salut.
2003-2010: Departament de Salut. Servei Català de la Salut.

Last update: July 12, 2011.

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.