Health boost

By XAVIER SMERDON
WERRIBEE will be home to a new $41.2 million inter-professional health clinic with Victoria University successfully gaining funding from the Federal Government.
The university has been given the green light, along with $22.9 million, to build clinic that will be run by students at the Werribee campus.
The clinic will provide “structured opportunities for trainee doctors, nurses, paramedics and other professionals to learn and practice together in cross disciplinary teams”.
The student-led centre will be under academic and practitioner supervision and will allow students to fine-tune their clinical skills while providing much needed health services to the community.
Victoria University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Dawkins, said it would enhance health education and the provision of health services in Wyndham.
“This Werribee clinic will be accessible to the public. It will be linked to similar existing clinics at St Albans campus and at Footscray (Whitten Oval), and complement existing health care provision by working collaboratively with partners in the western region,” Professor Dawkins said.
“It will deliver innovative curricula changes across the University’s health-related awards and enhanced pathways between disciplines.”
Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, said the project meant only good things for Wyndham.
“The project will have an immediate impact in the Werribee district and other suburbs in the outer-western metropolitan region of Melbourne,” Senator Evans said.
“That is good news for students and good news for the Victorian economy.”
The Gillard Government also announced that it will invest $377 million in new state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities at university campuses across the nation.

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