Deakin, ACT - Medical Centre
At Next Practice our mission, put simply, is to provide the best healthcare experience on the planet Earth!
Next Practice Deakin is a medical clinic dedicated to providing A New Kind of care to all. Care that is focused on wellness, care that is enabling, coordinated, compassionate, respectful, comprehensive and responsive to your individual needs. A centre of excellence with a team of healthcare professionals using contemporary models of care, enabled by purpose-built technology to support you to stay well as you go through life’s stages. Our purpose is simple yet extraordinary – to partner with you to deliver an experience of care and outcomes that matter to you.
Imagine walking into a welcoming, modern Living Room instead of a
waiting room where you feel like a number. Imagine being greeted by a
Patient Advocate instead of a receptionist. Imagine short wait times,
zen-like designs, relaxing music, refreshments, iPad check-ins and more.
Imagine A New Kind of healthcare.
Your journey starts at the click of a button with convenient booking online or via our Next Practice Patient App. Put your healthcare back into your hands - book and manage appointments, review prescriptions, set reminders for medication, track your health progress, view educational articles from your doctor and more... Our mission is to continually innovate to make your healthcare journey simpler and more convenient.
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At Next Practice, we want to provide a bridge to those that are less fortunate than us in any way we can. That's
why for every consultation at a Next Practice medical centre, we donate a
vaccination to someone in need in the developing world. We call it our
NextAid initiative.
Click to learn more about how many vaccinations we've donated as a network - https://nextpracticehealth.com...
Proceeds from each patient consultation within the Next Practice
network is donated through UNICEF Australia to sponsor
a vaccination against Maternal Tetanus. At the moment, our goal is to
focus solely on Maternal Tetanus (MNT) vaccinations to eliminate the
disease in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) represents a very high proportion of the total Tetanus disease. MNT is a swift and painful killer disease and extremely fatal in newborns- killing 30,848 newborns in 2017 alone.
MNT has been among the most common life-threatening consequences of unclean deliveries and umbilical cord care practices and are indicators of inequity in access to immunization and other maternal, newborn, and child health services.
Once the disease is contracted, the fatality rate can be as high as 100% without hospital care and between 10% to 60% with hospital care. The true extent of the Tetanus death toll is not known as many newborns and mothers die at home and neither the birth nor the death is reported.
This happens despite the fact that MNT deaths can be easily prevented
by hygienic delivery and cord care practices, and/or by immunizing
children and women with Tetanus Toxoid Containing Vaccines (TTCV), that
are inexpensive and very effective, through the life course.
While progress continues to be made, 13 countries have still not reached the MNTE status, including Papa New Guinea. Activities to achieve the goal are on-going in these countries and the World Health Organisation is hopeful that many are likely to achieve MNTE in the near future.
Look out for further information on donations on our News and Articles page or in the clinic.
You can find out more information on MNTE from UNICEF here.
Deakin, ACT - Medical Centre