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 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.

Nowadays, MPS comprises more than 250,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of clinical specialties, from places as far apart as Ireland and New Zealand, Hong Kong and Jamaica.

Services to members have expanded over the years in order to meet the original remit – to protect and safeguard the professional reputations of individual members and the professions to which they belong. This does not mean that we are anti-patient – far from it. We believe that patients who have been harmed through a member’s negligence should receive fair and speedy compensation.

We are also committed to educating healthcare professionals, drawing on our experience to alert them to the pitfalls of practice and to keep them informed about the legal and ethical framework in which they work.