Our mission

At Next Practice our mission, put simply, is to provide the best healthcare experience on the planet Earth!

A New Kind of reimagined space and experience

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.

A New Kind of powerful technology

Your journey starts at the click of a button with convenient booking online. Our mission is to continually innovate to make your healthcare journey simpler and more convenient.

We believe in wellbeing and prevention, not just helping you when you get sick. Keeping you well also means:

• Keeping you Covid safe with Telehealth consulations available
  
• Making it easy to book online
• Keeping wait times as short as possible
• Giving you ample free parking
• Bulk billing for your children under 13
• Having no gap fees for all care plans

We are a humanitarian organisation at our core and we believe no person should die from a preventable disease.

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What is Next Aid

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.

Total vaccinations donated

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How it works

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).

Why Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE)?

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.