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Successfully manage medico-legal challenges and get the expert guidance you need to practise with confidence. Consult our advisory helpline day or night on complex areas like consent and capacity.
Make sure you’re prepared for the challenges ahead. Organise free on-site medico-legal training for you and your team, including attendance certificates for revalidation purposes.
Our members can also earn free online CPD and book useful courses on preparing for your first consultant role and setting up in independent practice. When you need support, we’re here for you.
We offer our members expert guidance, personal support and robust defence in addressing medico-legal issues, complaints and claims.
Over 97% of calls to the MDU medico-legal helpline are connected straight to a medico-legal adviser during normal working hours.
In the last 10 years we’ve successfully defended over 76% of claims, making no compensation payments.
Professor Bill Ribbans contacted the MDU after receiving a letter from solicitors representing a previous patient.
The patient was considering taking legal action, as they were unhappy with their treatment. The complexity of the case required specific medical expertise to resolve. The MDU is run by doctors for doctors and provides 24-hour advice from award-winning medico-legal advisers.
Request a quote first to find out how much your subscription will be. Within a few working days, we’ll email you an application pack, including your quote.
Once you’re happy to proceed, you’ll need to complete an application form.
If you are going through a claim, as I did, you need to know somebody is immediately available when you call, that they can locate your file quickly and that their advice is sensible and reliable. The MDU does all this, and on top of that, you get genuine personal support. In a time of real crisis, that’s invaluable.” General practitioner
If you are going through a claim, as I did, you need to know somebody is immediately available when you call, that they can locate your file quickly and that their advice is sensible and reliable. The MDU does all this, and on top of that, you get genuine personal support. In a time of real crisis, that’s invaluable.”
My experience of the MDU is that it just takes one phone call and things start to happen. I had a stalker who followed me at work, but when they began to write to me at home, I felt very threatened. I didn’t sleep for days. Then I talked to an MDU adviser, and within a few hours a plan was in place to resolve the situation. It was a huge relief.” Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist
My experience of the MDU is that it just takes one phone call and things start to happen. I had a stalker who followed me at work, but when they began to write to me at home, I felt very threatened. I didn’t sleep for days. Then I talked to an MDU adviser, and within a few hours a plan was in place to resolve the situation. It was a huge relief.”
By gross income, we mean your annual pre-tax earnings from any non-indemnified medical work you do, whether or not you receive any or all of this.
Before calculating your subscription, we allow you to deduct reasonable practice expenses - up to 50% of the gross figure.
Your net income is your annual gross income minus these reasonable practice expenses.
Allowable expenses are the same as those declared in your tax return. They are expenses which are wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred for the purpose of clinical practice, such as professional fees (eg GMC, MDU subscription), premises costs, payroll costs, etc.
Before calculating your subscription, we allow you to deduct reasonable practice expenses up to 50% of the gross figure.
Allowable expenses are the same as those declared in your tax return.
They are expenses which are wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred for the purpose of clinical practice such as professional fees (GMC, MDU subscription), premises costs, payroll costs etc.