The Medical Protection Society (MPS) is the leading provider of comprehensive professional indemnity and expert advice to doctors, dentists and health professionals.

MPS is the largest such society operating internationally, with more than 250,000 members. The Medical Protection Society operates in a number of countries - the major ones being the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.

The Medical Protection Society is a mutual society for healthcare professionals. Doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals become members of the organisation. They are then able to apply to MPS for help with a particular problem.

The benefits of MPS membership are discretionary . This allows MPS the flexibility to provide help and support even in unusual circumstances. Members are not constrained by an insurance policy or contract of insurance - the relationship between the Medical Protection Society and its membership is based on the constitution of MPS.

The MPS Council, mainly consisting of medical and dental practitioners, controls the way that discretion is exercised, and the kind of help that can be offered to members on behalf of the membership. Fellow healthcare professionals therefore decide whether or not to help individual members. They understand how the profession works, and apply established criteria that have been developed through our long experience. This enables the Medical Protection Society to exercise its discretion fairly and consistently for the purpose for which the organisation was set up, namely to support members.

For more than a hundred years, MPS has flourished - a mutual organisation where fellow professionals provide a flexible range of benefits that meet the evolving needs of members.

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