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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties, areas and provinces 2010
Pharmacy offices Hospital pharmacies Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 1 2,060
Alt Empordà 73 1 1,921
Alt Penedès 34 1 3,076
Alt Urgell 10 1 2,201
Alta Ribagorça 3 0 1,426
Anoia 37 1 3,191
Bages 77 2 2,404
Baix Camp 75 3 2,539
Baix Ebre 35 2 2,349
Baix Empordà 65 1 2,050
Baix Llobregat 247 8 3,233
Baix Penedès 30 1 3,326
Barcelonès 1,227 46 1,835
Berguedà 20 1 2,084
Cerdanya 10 0 1,855
Conca de Barberà 10 0 2,144
Garraf 37 2 3,910
Garrigues 12 0 1,701
Garrotxa 26 1 2,132
Gironès 73 4 2,482
Maresme 132 3 3,265
Montsià 25 0 2,893
Noguera 21 0 1,911
Osona 61 1 2,516
Pallars Jussà 7 0 1,997
Pallars Sobirà 4 0 1,912
Pla d'Urgell 18 0 2,076
Pla de l'Estany 12 1 2,555
Priorat 10 0 1,015
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1 1,605
Ripollès 13 1 2,045
Segarra 10 0 2,294
Segrià 77 5 2,672
Selva 55 1 3,110
Solsonès 5 0 2,746
Tarragonès 92 2 2,714
Terra Alta 11 0 1,176
Urgell 16 0 2,333
Val d'Aran 5 0 2,041
Vallès Occidental 238 5 3,725
Vallès Oriental 119 3 3,334
Catalonia 3,069 99 2,448
Metropolità 2,034 68 2,465
Comarques Gironines 317 10 2,329
Camp de Tarragona 239 7 2,581
Terres de l'Ebre 86 3 2,228
Ponent 154 5 2,363
Comarques Centrals 200 5 2,560
Alt Pirineu i Aran 39 1 1,966
Barcelona 2,228 73 2,474
Girona 325 10 2,317
Lleida 191 6 2,302
Tarragona 325 10 2,487
Source: 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.