A guide to MPS membership

This section of the website is an introduction to the scope of MPS membership. It provides a short account of MPS history and philosophy, describing how we work and setting out the main benefits and obligations of membership.

We have tried to include everything that a member might like to know without being overloaded by information. If we have not included a topic you are interested in, or if you would like more detail about certain subjects, you may find it elsewhere on this website, or simply by giving us a call.

MPS is a mutual society of healthcare professionals originally formed in 1892 to provide support for doctors facing legal claims and to expose charlatanism and quackery.

Today, MPS protects and promotes the interests of members and the wider profession around the world; there are now more than 260,000 members in 40 countries.

Over the years, services to members have expanded to meet the original remit – to protect and safeguard the professional reputations of individual members and the professions to which they belong. You can find details about all the benefits of membership by browsing through the sections as listed on the right.

Although our prime concern is to protect members’ interests, this does not mean that we are anti-patient – far from it. Fairness is one of our core values, and we believe that patients who have been harmed through a member’s negligence should receive fair and speedy compensation. We also devote MPS resources to the education of healthcare professionals, with the focus on improving patient safety.