Find a pharmacy in Zutphen
Zutphen is a Hanseatic town of roughly 48,000 residents on the IJssel in Gelderland, and PillsCard verifies six community pharmacies serving the city and its surrounding villages in the Berkelland and Lochem corridors. The catchment is broader than the population suggests: pharmacies here dispense to commuters from Warnsveld, Eefde and Vorden, to students at Graafschap College, and to older residents in the historic core around Houtmarkt and 's-Gravenhof, where chronic-medication dispensing dominates the daily workload. The town has no university hospital, so pharmacies coordinate closely with Gelre Ziekenhuizen Zutphen on Den Elterweg for hospital discharge prescriptions, specialist injectables, and oncology adjuncts. Cross-border traffic from German patients near Vreden and Bocholt is modest but visible, particularly for compounded preparations.
The local market is structured around national chain franchises rather than independents. BENU Apotheek Arcus anchors dispensing in the Leesten district, while two further Benu branches cover the central and northern neighbourhoods, giving the chain a clear footprint across the town's residential ring. Apotheek Polbeek operates in the Polsbroek area and is known locally for blister-pack medication-on-time services to nursing homes along the Coehoornsingel. The Alphega network is represented by Alphega Apotheek Zutphen locatie de Hoven on the west bank across the IJssel railway bridge, and Alphega Apotheek De Lunette near the De Hoven shopping parade, both serving the newer post-war housing west of the river. None of the verified pharmacies is hospital-owned; all are primary-care community apotheken contracted directly with Dutch health insurers.
Pricing & coverage
Under the Zorgverzekeringswet, the basisverzekering reimburses prescription medicines listed in the Geneesmiddelenvergoedingssysteem (GVS), with patients paying the annual eigen risico of € () before reimbursement begins. A standard prescription dispensing fee (terhandstelling) runs €–€, a first-issue consultation €–€, and weekly medication-roll (baxter) services €–€ per week. Over-the-counter products — paracetamol, antihistamines, oral rehydration salts — are not reimbursed and sit at €–€. Specialist compounded preparations vary widely. The drug regulator