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The new MECA provides enhancement to core terms and provisions and has achieved several improvements including salaries and continuing medical education (CME). Other features are:
the establishment of an independent commission on competitive terms and conditions of employment for senior doctors and dentists in the context of a sustainable pathway to addressing recruitment and retention,
the joint national consultation committee (NCC) which will meet at least quarterly and provide a further opportunity to improve work satisfaction and, as a result, retention.
The 'Time for Quality' agreement. The premise behind ‘Time for Quality’ is simple; that quality is central to the delivery of health services and standards of patient care, that health professional leadership is critical to the provision of quality, and that the key resource health professionals need to provide quality is time. This principle and the others are replicated in the MECA.
You may find the MECA Guide a useful help to understanding and finding your way through the MECA.