Long known as a resort in the South Pacific, the island of Tahiti has become the site of one of the biggest hospital projects ever to be built in the South Pacific.

St Vincent's is one of Sydney's oldest hospitals and provides emergency secondary and tertiary hospital care to the community at a state and national level.

Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) is a 700-bed tertiary referral and teaching hospital affiliated to the   University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney. RNSH provides care to the local community, the Northern Sydney Health area (population:777,000), New South Wales and some patients and staff from Pacific Island nations.

Nelson Hospital in Nelson, New Zealand completed its three-year development in June 2003, transforming an aged facility into a major health centre for its region.

The Geraldton Regional Hospital Redevelopment project, Western Australia, will create a modern hospital with comprehensive infrastructure and facilities when completed in June 2006.

Gujarat province in Northern India was the home of Mahatma Gandhi. It is also the site of earthquakes,one of which devastated the province in January 2001 and caused tens of thousands of casualties.

Auckland's new acute adult hospital on the Auckland District Health Board's Grafton Road site opened on 3 October 2004.

Located in a prosperous area of London, Kingston Hospital is undergoing a long-term development plan that will see its premises and services match the best in the country.

In order to protect the patients at the Danube-Ries Clinic in Oettingen from the building noise during  ongoing renovation work, an interim ward for 30 beds was set up the room cell construction method.

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

As yet another European Country with an aging population, medical provision for geriatrics is becoming  an important issue in Ireland.

In Linz, Austria, a new accident hospital is being built. The new complex, built according to modern       spatial requirements, will replace the existing building which dates from 1951.

The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and Barts in The City of London, both part of  the Barts and  The London NHS Trust, are each undergoing £1 billion of refurbishment and construction.

Built by the Barnet and Chase Farm NHS trust in 2002, Barnet Hospital was officially opened in February 2003.