Balcktown. $20.6m medical school opened

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and federal Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, officially opened the $20.6 million University of Western Sydney Blacktown/Mt Druitt Clinical School, based at Blacktown Hospital. The school is one of the key training sites for the UWS School of Medicine. UWS medical students use the Clinical School facilities and the adjacent Hospital to learn their clinical and diagnostic skills while being mentored by senior specialists, nurses and allied health professionals.