MPS Review

MPS has recently passed two significant milestones – there are now over 250,000 members around the world and the organisation has more than £1 billion in reserves to meet the cost of adverse incidents. With these in mind, we feel that this is an appropriate opportunity to tell you more about MPS – how we use your money and all the services available to support you. At the heart of MPS is our 24 hour telephone advisory service, for both general enquiries and “out of hours” emergency help.

It is staffed by a large team of specialist medicolegal advisers (MLAs) who are on hand to offer expert advice and guidance on any problems arising from your professional practice. MLAs are experienced doctors with backgrounds in a range of specialties and they have legal training and qualifications. Supporting them is a team of in-house lawyers who are highly experienced in clinical negligence claims, GMC inquiries, disciplinary procedures and inquests. While our comprehensive indemnity is very much about giving you peace of mind when something goes wrong, MPS has much more to offer in promoting best practice. As a mutual, our ethos is to share our experience and expertise to prevent things going wrong in the first place.

MPS is here to be a trusted partner throughout your career, supporting you in being the best you can be for your patients. As a values led organisation, our focus is on offering a high quality service, security, peace of mind, fairness, and being at the heart of the profession. You can find out more about these values, the breadth of service we offer, and what this means for you as a member, in the following pages.

Tony Mason
Chief Executive