Blacktown. More medical students

Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, said there were 125 students training in Blacktown and Mount Druitt hospitals and the number would increase to 150 next year, when she visited the new Blacktown Hospital Clinical School Research and Education Centre. $20.6 million of Commonwealth funding for the new training facilities was made under round 1 of the $3.2 billion Health and Hospitals Fund and the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations’ Capital Development Pool. The University of Western Sydney also contributed $4.5 million.