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Barnet Hospital was completed in 2002 and opened in February 2003.

The 459-bed hospital was built under the Government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

The new hospital cost £40 million and replaced an earlier Victorian building which had undergone rapid expansion in World War 1.


The Royal London will be Britain's biggest new hospital, providing clinically renowned general and specialist services to the population of east London and beyond.

Members of the Barts and The London Breast Care Patient Support Group in the patient resource room at the Breast Care Centre.

Over 40% of the beds will be in single rooms with ensuite facilities, with the remainder in roomy, four-bedded bays.

Artist's impression of the dramatic atrium at Barts.

Artist's impression of the historic facade at The Royal London Hospital with the new building behind.

The new hospital at The Royal London will feature two glass towers, one equipped with a helipad for London's Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS).


To be built on a 10-acre site on Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Bloomfield Geriatric Hospital is expected to be completed in 2005 and will cater for about 95 people.

The site in Donnybrook is currently home to Bloomfield (psychogeriatric hospital), New Lodge (nursing care) and Westfield (residential home).


The Children's Hospital for Wales, the first hospital ever built for children in Wales, began construction in Cardiff in February 2003.

East elevation of the new Children's Hospital for Wales.

North elevation of the new Children's Hospital for Wales.

Artist's impression of the reception in the new Children's Hospital for Wales.

Child-friendly features will include reduced height window sills and finger guard protection to all doors.


Danube-Ries Clinic has set up a temporary ward for its patients while renovation work is being carried out.

Once fitted out, the temporary modules allow the quality of accommodation in the Clinic to continue to be guaranteed.

A total of 17 room modules, each weighing 25t to 30t, were placed in the garden of the Clinic within two days and are connected to the building by a corridor.


Kingston Hospital is undergoing a long-term development plan that will see new facilities being built for the physiotherapy department, the education and training services and for hospital catering.

The Phase 5 development is intended to create a pleasant environment for patients, visitors and staff.

Increased bed spacing, improved patient privacy, comfort and dignity as well as improved links to main hospital areas are some of the benefits this development brings.


The new accident hospital at Linz could expect to treat more than 40,000 ambulatory and 6,000 stationary patients.

According to the Austrian Health Ministry, the new hospital will be a "major step forward in the provision of facilities for the Linz area and the region as a whole."


Construction of the Mater Dei Hospital began in 2000.

When completed the new hospital project will have a total floor area of 232,000m² and approximately 8,000 rooms.

2002 - outpatients department under construction.

Mater Dei Hospital will be the first building in Malta with insulated external walls and with high performance glass in the windows.


Work has begun on a new hospital for Mid Argyll, Scotland, which brings hospital, GP, dental, and social services onto the same site for the first time.

The new facility will include: additional accommodation for GPs, inpatient beds, a teleradiology link, multi-use consulting and treatment rooms, dental surgery, elderly care wards, day hospital / care facility for older people, and state of the art audiology and speech and language therapy consulting rooms.

The project is a PFI contract and has a two-year construction and commissioning timescale.


Costing over £111 million the new hospital building houses 314 acute specialties beds including a dedicated 18-bed day case unit, a 15-bed private patient unit, seven operating theatres, a 25-bed rehabilitation unit and a day assessment and treatment unit.

Further facilities include a dedicated outpatient department, accident and emergency, radiology, pathology and rehabilitation departments.

The new Nobles Hospital, Braddan, IOM, opened in July 2003.


When completed the new Savernake hospital will be a 3,200m³ two-storey building which will feature 35 intermediate care beds, 12 beds for older people with mental illness, facilities for outpatients, x-ray and minor injuries departments, central reception area, cafe, shop and waiting areas.

The provision of key worker accommodation (six units) as part of the associated residential development has been designed to mitigate some of the recruitment difficulties currently experienced in this expensive housing area.


Construction of South Holland Hospital in Pinchbeck, UK, will begin in 2006 with opening scheduled for 2007 / early 2008.


St Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway is undergoing massive redevelopment.

The new hospital is replacing buildings over 100 years old.

The Patient Hotel provides a place to stay for people who are too healthy to be a hospital in-patient but need to be close to a hospital for other reasons.

The Patient Hotel includes a unit for mothers with newborn babies as well as a place for patients' relatives to stay.

The hotel has 150 rooms, of which 110 are located in a new building close to the old rheumatic hospital.


The new hospital in Gibraltar will dramatically update medical facilities on the island.

New equipment in radiology, sterilisation and pathology and in the new operating theatres will enhance and provide the basis of excellence that the new facility will bring to the Gibraltar community.


The new UCL Hospital is one of the largest PFI deals ever undertaken.

UCLH services are currently split between four different hospital sites in London.

The new hospital will house 721 inpatient beds and 35 critical care beds.

UCLH plc consortium is responsible for designing the facilities, building the facilities, financing the capital cost and operating the facilities.

The whole hospital will be ventilated to a degree considered good even for an isolation ward.

The new hospital comprises two main buildings: The Tower (three basements and 17 upper floors) and The Podium (two basements and five upper floors).

The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (EGA) wing, Phase 2 of the project, will have two basements and five upper floors.

When finally completed in 2008, the new structure will have capacity for 10% more in-patients and 14% more outpatients on a single site.


A new hospital at Vallata, Genoa, will be built by 2008.

This initiative is the first in Italy to take advantage of the changes to the Merloni-Quater law allowing the use of project financing in public utilities.

The hospital will be built on the former Mira Lanza site in Genoa and the construction will take place over four years.

First stage of the Vallata Hospital project.


The current construction project at Whittington Hospital is a scheme to reorganise and change acute core services.


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