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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2005
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 1,793
Alt Empordà 68 1 1,701
Alt Penedès 33 1 2,839
Alt Urgell 9 1 2,249
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,312
Anoia 36 1 2,919
Bages 72 2 2,328
Baix Camp 72 3 2,269
Baix Ebre 33 2 2,231
Baix Empordà 52 1 2,245
Baix Llobregat 235 8 3,163
Baix Penedès 27 0 2,966
Barcelonès 1,227 45 1,767
Berguedà 20 1 1,981
Cerdanya 10 0 1,650
Conca de Barberà 10 0 1,989
Garraf 36 2 3,490
Garrigues 12 0 1,616
Garrotxa 26 1 1,971
Gironès 69 4 2,314
Maresme 116 3 3,404
Montsià 23 0 2,717
Noguera 21 0 1,759
Osona 57 1 2,488
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,754
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,720
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 1,829
Pla de l'Estany 12 1 2,283
Priorat 10 0 947
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,458
Ripollès 13 1 2,010
Segarra 9 0 2,343
Segrià 75 5 2,422
Selva 49 1 2,837
Solsonès 4 0 3,212
Tarragonès 90 2 2,314
Terra Alta 11 0 1,158
Urgell 16 0 2,091
Val d'Aran 6 0 1,479
Vallès Occidental 228 5 3,529
Vallès Oriental 109 4 3,277
Catalonia 2,965 98 2,319
Metropolità 1,984 68 2,363
Comarques Gironines 289 10 201
Camp de Tarragona 231 6 83
Terres de l'Ebre 82 3 32
Ponent 151 5 34
Comarques Centrals 189 5 40
Alt Pirineu i Aran 39 1 5
Barcelona 2,168 73 2,372
Girona 297 10 2,184
Lleida 187 6 2,108
Tarragona 313 9 2,208
Source: Departament de Salut. Servei Català de la Salut.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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.