Preposition: for

• check-up: An SAR helicopter then arrived at the scene and transferred the lost diver to hospital for a check-up.

Adjective modifier

• psychiatric: Yes I have spent a lot of time in a psychiatric hospital.

• acute: In 1999 private acute hospitals had a total turnover of £ 3bn compared to a total NHS expenditure of £ 52 bn.

• mental: Curiously, the Government had also built a vast, very expensive mental hospital in the bush nearby.

• private: Due to my desperation I enquired about other private hospitals within an hour's drive of where I live.

• local: I even got onto a sleep study at a local hospital which was not much help.

• veterinary: This site provides information on the School, its courses, staff, internships, residencies and veterinary teaching hospital.

Modifies a noun

• admission: Hospital Admissions - from what date to what date; which hospital?

• ward: The dissertation was an assessment of thermal comfort within hospital wards, through the correct application of ventilation.

• bed: Waking up in a hospital bed, Jane wonders whether it was real or just a dream.

• discharge: When you come: Please bring your hospital discharge notes, or the baby's red health book when you register.

• trust: Less than 20 % of those in charge of hospital trusts are women.

• appointment: He's also glad that Lizzie is able to take her mind off an imminent hospital appointment with arranging Jill's party.

Preposition: by

• ambulance: Not surprisingly I continued to lose weight until I collapsed at work and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.

Noun used with modifier

• NHS: It may be a private bed in an NHS hospital.

• foundation: Kevin Curran, the newly elected general secretary of the GMB, used his victory speech to attack the setting up of foundation hospitals.

• leper: By law, leper hospitals had to be situated outside town boundaries and St. Leonard's was on the Newton side of the beck.

• teaching: Setting The Emergency Department of a large teaching hospital in South-East England.

• fever: The fever hospital was burned down during the civil war in 1922-23.

• isolation: He was sent to be educated with a dietary counselor at the isolation hospital at Bryne Boars, Chesil Beach.