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Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Pharmacies. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2023
Pharmacy offices Inhabitants per pharmacy office
Alt Camp 22 2,094
Alt Empordà 75 1,957
Alt Penedès 39 2,884
Alt Urgell 10 2,076
Alta Ribagorça 3 1,340
Anoia 43 2,948
Aran 5 2,099
Bages 74 2,477
Baix Camp 78 2,585
Baix Ebre 37 2,198
Baix Empordà 68 2,078
Baix Llobregat 274 3,068
Baix Penedès 35 3,306
Barcelonès 1,224 1,891
Berguedà 21 1,934
Cerdanya 11 1,808
Conca de Barberà 10 2,048
Garraf 45 3,536
Garrigues 12 1,578
Garrotxa 25 2,455
Gironès 84 2,400
Maresme 160 2,921
Moianès 9 1,630
Montsià 27 2,602
Noguera 22 1,799
Osona 64 2,617
Pallars Jussà 7 1,916
Pallars Sobirà 4 1,822
Pla d'Urgell 18 2,097
Pla de l'Estany 14 2,371
Priorat 9 1,040
Ribera d'Ebre 15 1,469
Ripollès 13 1,983
Segarra 11 2,176
Segrià 83 2,596
Selva 72 2,536
Solsonès 6 2,288
Tarragonès 101 2,676
Terra Alta 11 1,043
Urgell 17 2,233
Vallès Occidental 280 3,389
Vallès Oriental 144 2,932
Catalonia 3,282 2,408
Barcelona 2,376 2,440
Girona 360 2,246
Lleida 201 2,226
Tarragona 345 2,460
Source: Ministry of Health.

Last update: May 21, 2024.

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.