Training for More Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals in the Territory
Patients in the Territory will benefit from increased access to more doctors, nurses and allied health professionals with the announcement of around $8 million for up to 9 capital projects and additional support projects to improve clinical education and training infrastructure.
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30 July 2011
Patients in the Territory will benefit from increased access to more doctors, nurses and allied health professionals with the announcement today of around $8 million for up to 9 capital projects and additional support projects to improve clinical education and training infrastructure.
Acting Minister for Health and Ageing, Mark Butler said that the new clinical training infrastructure includes training facilities at Universities, hospitals and health care facilities, as well as new equipment such as simulation equipment, dental chairs and video conferencing facilities.
“These infrastructure projects will enable us to train more doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in places where we need them,” said Mr Butler.
“The Gillard Government is delivering a highly skilled health workforce that is the critical backbone of our health system.
“This important funding will see projects such as the development of a central 'hub' for health training and administration at Katherine District Hospital, and 'spokes' for regional training in five communities in the Sunrise Health Region.
“Many communities in the Territory, especially Indigenous communities, are in desperate need of doctors, and having doctors trained locally will help address this.
‘We are ensuring that training occurs closer to where patients live - at least twenty percent of these infrastructure projects are outside the usual major teaching hospitals.
“Nationally fifty percent of projects funded under this program will deliver vital infrastructure to rural and regional Australia including construction of new clinical training facilities and student accommodation to support rural students”, said Mr Butler.
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