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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2007
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 1,937
Alt Empordà 69 1 1,842
Alt Penedès 34 1 2,952
Alt Urgell 9 1 2,314
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,362
Anoia 37 1 3,029
Bages 72 2 2,451
Baix Camp 74 3 2,414
Baix Ebre 34 2 2,310
Baix Empordà 57 1 2,189
Baix Llobregat 241 8 3,170
Baix Penedès 27 1 3,388
Barcelonès 1,226 46 1,795
Berguedà 20 1 2,028
Cerdanya 10 0 1,755
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,045
Garraf 36 2 3,786
Garrigues 12 0 1,631
Garrotxa 26 1 2,051
Gironès 70 4 2,427
Maresme 125 3 3,306
Montsià 23 0 2,912
Noguera 22 0 1,710
Osona 57 1 2,592
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,834
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,800
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 1,944
Pla de l'Estany 12 1 2,386
Priorat 10 0 962
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,503
Ripollès 13 1 2,036
Segarra 9 0 2,397
Segrià 76 5 2,514
Selva 53 1 2,923
Solsonès 4 0 3,394
Tarragonès 90 2 2,560
Terra Alta 11 0 1,157
Urgell 16 0 2,179
Val d'Aran 6 0 1,608
Vallès Occidental 231 5 3,631
Vallès Oriental 113 3 3,330
Catalonia 3,004 99 2,387
Metropolità 2,006 68 2,408
Comarques Gironines 300 10 2,284
Camp de Tarragona 233 7 2,460
Terres de l'Ebre 83 3 2,178
Ponent 153 5 2,220
Comarques Centrals 190 5 2,581
Alt Pirineu i Aran 39 1 1,850
Barcelona 2,191 73 2,422
Girona 308 10 2,269
Lleida 189 6 2,179
Tarragona 316 10 2,386
Source: Departament de Salut. Servei Català de la Salut.

Last update: July 15, 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.