Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Despite how good the majority of the hospital is, the Pharmacy is rude, inconsiderate and outright lies.

If you need to pickup a prescription they will make you wait upwards of an hour, even when it should already have been ready.

Disgusting behaviour, not to mention the staff are rude and see fit to challenge prescriptions because it’s “something they learnt at uni” - not a dr luv, pharmacist…

I've had a long up and down relationship with the Royal since April 1st 2000. I have to say, despite this and the many many surgeries I've had there, I still feel that I can say ALL the staff are absolutely fantastic. Professional, caring, attentive, extremely knowledgeable and just so dedicated to the nature of their chosen profession.
I have been so poorly sometimes, and I mean life threatening poorly. Poorly, leading to being so depressed and the nurses who have cared for me come in to see me and bring the Sunshine and their smiles. It's infectious and it's impossible to stay 'down' too long when they are so involved in every aspect of my life and getting me on the mend and ready to go back home.
So yes, I endorse The Royal. A place to be if you want to get well. I recently had a skin cancer scare and from going to see my GP to seeing the specialist was 11 days. My Dad, on the other end, saw his GP in Bradford and from that first visit and subsequent referral to being seen at the Bradford Royal Infirmary was just over 5 MONTHS and by that time the pea sized tumour in his esophagus and spread to his liver and he died 3 months later. I don't know if it's a protocol for the whole of Derbyshire, but The Royal does not mess about where a possible cancer and you are seen within days.
Amazing place, amazing staff.

Graham Dawson

Awful experience thanks to Ms A Miller from the Speech department. Tried to ruin my day and others, by being extremely rude & difficult! The caretaker was more professional and more considerate than Ms Miller! I have waited months for my appointment, the parking isn’t the best, even with a blue badge! I didn’t go through all of that to then be badged by a woman thinking herself to be so high and mighty over others and to here about her five books! I went there for my appointment! Awful experience! Thanks Miller! Maybe take lessons on gratitude and caring for people rather than focusing on mere speech, because if I could only pick two words from the English dictionary for you right now, guess what they would be?
Disgusting woman!

I don’t use a&e very often. The last time I went was 2018. I understand the concept of accident and emergency only. I was made to feel very upset when getting checked in. After being referred by my GP the same day to go up. I was in a lot of pain. The person checking me in was very abrupt and told me she didn’t know why the GP had told me to go there and she asked me ‘and what do they want us to do?’ At that point I just wanted to go home but I’m glad I didn’t. Thankfully I was given some treatment to help and further tests were done.

I have had excellent care whilst going to the hospital. From the ambulance staff, A&E staff to the staff on the wards. A special thank you to Mari and Niska who wizid me to Ridgeway ward from EMD. All the staff were polite, professional and most of all filled with human kindness.

Yesterday I had to go to Chesterfield Hospital as I had food poisoning and had become dehydrated. My heart rate had gone up to around 140. I was placed in Resuscitation Unit in Emergency Department. Katie and Dileep looked after me and monitored me all afternoon. Treatment from the two of them was great. Thank you

OMG!!!!!! SO IN MARCH 2021 I WAS IN HOSPITAL AND HAD A COVID TEST BEFORE BEEN MOVED TO A COVID FREE WARD . MY TEST RESULTS CAME BACK clear apparently so I WAS MOVED IN A WARD WITH SOME OTHER LADIES THAT MUST HAVE BEEN about 90 . I get 8 months later i get a letter telling me i tested positive for COVID and if I'm having problems speak to a doctor. How incompetent 3 elderly patients put at Risk i could say plenty more about this place

Had a kidney stone. Called 111 they wanted to send me to northern general. This hospital os easiest to get to. Got there straight to reception. Then through to triage then to bays. To me people use this as an a and e not like others that use other hospitals like gp services.