Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was a former NHS trust that ran Royal Derby Hospital and the London Road Community Hospital, both in Derby, together with outpatient and diagnostic services in a range of community hospitals, health centres and GP surgeries across southern Derbyshire, until its merger in July 2018 with Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, when it created University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.

The trust had a substantial Private Finance Initiative contract. Innisfree Ltd, ISS Mediclean and Skanska were the partners. Its main hospital, Royal Derby Hospital was built at a cost of £340 million. The repayments on the scheme, £39m a year for 40 years, plus inflation, are set to be well in excess of £1.5bn.

Dr. Nigel Sturrock was appointed medical director of the trust in March 2014.

In February 2015, it was reported that Chief Executive Sue James had cashed in her pension entitlement by "retiring" on 30 March 2014 for 24 hours before being rehired. In response the trust has denied that any rules were broken.

The trust merged with Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to form University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust in 2018.