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3 May 2010

The Rudd Government today provided a timely boost to the future of health in Victoria.

The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon today announced $6.5 million to support additional clinical training places for students at local universities - which will encourage more health students to study and work in Victoria.

Institutions to share in the funding for Victoria include Monash University, the University of Melbourne, Deakin University, the Australian College of Optometry and Northern Health.

The funding will support approximately 1200 additional annual clinical training placements for entry-level students currently enrolled in medicine, nursing and midwifery, physiotherapy, optometry and a variety of other allied health disciplines.

The funding for Victoria is part of up to $67.5 million in Increased Clinical Training Capacity grants provided by the Rudd Government for 65 projects across Australia.

The Victorian grants will fund opportunities ranging from mobile eye clinics in a number of areas of Melbourne and regional Victoria to a student-led training ward in Bundoora.

The projects will boost the availability of clinical training places and help ensure that students undertaking health professional studies have access to top-quality facilities and the clinical training necessary to complete their qualification.

Many of the clinical placements to be supported under the funding take advantage of community and private settings not traditionally used for this type of training.

Students will benefit from new supervision and mentoring in team-based, non-traditional settings such as private practices and private hospitals, community health services, small public hospitals, mobile clinics and primary schools.

Future funding for clinical training will be managed by Health Workforce Australia, the organisation established under COAG’s National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform as the national health workforce planning agency.

The Increased Clinical Training Capacity grants underline the Rudd Government’s commitment to provide the resources necessary to build a health workforce that meets the current and future needs of the Australian community.

For all media inquiries, please contact the Minister's Office on 02 6277 7220.

Grant Recipients

Lead Organisation	Partner Organisation	Project Description	Location/s	Funding (GST exclusive)
Monash University		Increase clinical training capacity in the setting of disaster and mass-casualty emergency situations by developing disaster simulations using the international "Emergo-Train System".	Peninsula and The Alfred Hospital Campuses of Monash University	$41,000
University of Melbourne	Warringal Private Hospital	This project involves the establishment of a sub-branch of the Austin Clinical School at the Warringal Hospital allowing medical students to access patients.	Warringal	$212,000
University of Melbourne	Anzac Lodge, Bethel, Brotherhood of St Laurence & other aged care homes, state primary schools	Manufacture to specification of two mobile eye clinics that will enable clinical placements at aged care facilities and school screening in suburban Melbourne and regional Victoria.	Outer Melbourne and regional Victoria	$592,000
Northern Health	La Trobe and Melbourne Universities	Implementation of a student-led training ward in a sub-acute health service setting focusing on delivery of inpatient aged care, chronic disease management and rehabilitation services.	Bundoora	$473,000
Australian College of Optometry	University of NSW, Qld University of Technology	Establishment of additional consulting rooms for clinical training in non-traditional training settings.	Carlton	$375,700
Gippsland Southern Health Service	Monash University, Bass Coast Regional Health, South Gippsland Hospital, private practices	Expansion of medical student numbers and inclusion of a range of other disciplines.	Gippsland	$635,600
Monash University	Southern Health	Establishment of placements in outer-urban and urban-fringe primary and secondary hospitals and mobile clinical teaching teams.	Melbourne	$1.15 m
Monash University		Establishment of additional placements for health transport, paramedic and nursing students using approved simulation techniques for emergency situations.	Peninsula and The Alfred Hospital Campuses of Monash University	$158,000
Deakin University	Barwon Health	Expansion of training into community health centres, focusing on mental health, in the Geelong area.	Geelong	$108,500
Woodend Medical Centre	Monash University	Construction and fitout of a multi-disciplinary teaching facilities.	Woodend	$1.36 m
Epworth HealthCare	Deakin University	Expansion of clinical placements across all Epworth HealthCare sites.	Box Hill, East Melbourne, Brighton, Camberwell, Richmond	$1.45 m