The main beneficiary is Royal Edinburgh Hospital Campus with a further £120 million to complete its redevelopment.

It is all part of a £409m plan with investment to be secured through a £1 billion extension to the Non Profit Distributing (NPD) programme, which now extends through to 2019-20.

NPD caps private sector returns, there is no dividend bearing equity and any surplus is directed in favour of the public sector.

Community health projects will be delivered as Design, Build, Finance and Maintain (DBFM) projects via the hub initiative.

Other projects in the £409m package include:

The NPD model has been developed by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) which has been set up by the government to support infrastructure investment in Scotland.

Ms Sturgeon said: “These health projects will provide state-of-the-art facilities to care for thousands of patients across Scotland.

“This £409m investment will deliver the highest quality of health and social care services. This government’s vision is to deliver world-leading safe, effective and person-centred healthcare.

“Today’s announcement demonstrates that, despite the massive cuts to Scotland’s capital budget from Westminster, the Scottish Government will continue to deliver substantial investment in the infrastructure of the NHS through use of the innovative NPD model and the Hub programme.

“Infrastructure investment is also fundamental to delivering sustainable economic growth. It supports our construction industry and helps attract business activity to our communities.

“That is why we recently announced, as part of the draft budget, a £1bn extension to the NPD pipeline extension to 2019-20.”

Barry White, chief executive of the Scottish Futures Trust, added: “This massive investment in healthcare will deliver first-class, well designed buildings to support local healthcare and create thousands of jobs across Scotland. The SFT-managed £3.5bn NPD programme stands as one of the largest infrastructure investment programme of its type across Europe.”