Core benefits of membership

In addition to clinical negligence claims, we commonly provide broad-ranging assistance in the following areas:

Medicolegal advice

You may phone us for immediate advice to help resolve everyday dilemmas. Our medicolegal advisers respond to more than 18,000 telephone calls a year.

Help with complaints

We can help you formulate a response to a complaint and, if necessary, arrange for someone to accompany you to a panel hearing.

Report-writing

If you have to write a medicolegal report or a witness statement, we can advise you on the best approach and will check your report for you before you submit it.

Disciplinary and medical council procedures

We can provide advice and legal representation for disciplinary and regulatory council procedures. We can help members from the outset, whether it be drafting a letter in response to a GMC enquiry or providing high-calibre legal representation at a full hearing.

Preparing for inquests

We can help you prepare a report for the coroner and advise you on how to conduct yourself at the inquest. If necessary, we can arrange for legal representation on your behalf.

Handling media intrusions

If you are unfortunate enough to attract adverse publicity, we can issue press statements and act as spokesperson to the media to shield you as far as possible from having to deal directly with the press.

Legal representation in criminal prosecutions arising from clinical practice

If you are prosecuted for a criminal offence such as gross negligence manslaughter, you can ask us to provide you with legal representation to defend your case.

Sexual offences

You can ask MPS for assistance if you face an allegation of sexual assault arising out of your clinical practice (although it is unlikely that we would provide assistance in connection with allegations arising from your personal conduct).

Indemnity for “good Samaritan acts”

The benefits of MPS membership are available to you if you are involved in a claim arising from a "good Samaritan act" anywhere in the world. In the unlikely event that legal proceedings follow, you would be entitled to apply for assistance, no matter in which country the legal proceedings are commenced.