New Karolinska Solna (NKS) will be a completely new State-of-the-art teaching hospital with the task of providing highly specialized healthcare, research and education of excellent quality on large scale. The new hospital is scheduled to open it’s door for the first patient in 2016 and be completely ready in 2017.

The project New Karolinska Solna is operated through a Private Public Partnership (PPP). This is the world's largest PPP-hospital and Sweden's first PPP-building, and the first PPP-University Hospital with the ambition to become certified under the LEED Gold (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).