Pride Pharmacy opened its doors at Royal Derby Hospital in February 2020 and is one of the busiest pharmacies in the region, dispensing around 10,000 outpatient prescriptions every month.
Alongside the outpatient dispensary service, Pride Pharmacy also operates a retail outlet offering over the counter medicines, toiletries, and baby products.
Pride Pharmacy will be moving to Level 2 of the Kings Treatment Centre from its current location near the main entrance on Level 1 in April 2025.
The same service will be available to patients and our communities, including collection of prescriptions and medication - but from a new purpose-designed location.
The new Pride Pharmacy service will be opening in the space currently occupied by the Amigos coffee shop at the front of the Kings Treatment Centre (Level 2).
The nearest entrance to the new location will be Entrance 6.
You can download maps of Royal Derby Hospital, including of Kings Treatment Centre, here >
If you need assistance to get to the new pharmacy, our Volunteers also operate our yellow patient 'buggy' service, and will be able to transport you on a buggy to the nearest lifts and stairs to the new pharmacy site. A second buggy available in the Kings Treatment Centre will then be available to help you complete your journey.
To find the pharmacy from the main entrance:
To find the pharmacy from outside the main building:
Yes, services will operate as normal.
No, it is not legally allowed for a community pharmacy to dispense hospital out-patient prescriptions. Hospital outpatient prescriptions can only be dispensed by the pharmacy departments within the hospital. This has always been the case, even when the Hospital’s own pharmacy dispensed these prescriptions.
All car parks are free for the first 30 minutes. The nearest car park is Car Park 8. There are also designated drop off bays around the hospital near Entrance 24 and Entrance 21.
Return or contact the clinic which you visited and speak to a member of staff. A clinician will then need to decide whether the prescription is clinically urgent. If so, clinic staff will contact the Trust’s on-call Pharmacist. If the prescription is not urgent you should return to the Pride pharmacy during opening hours.