Resident doctors
Tailored membership for SAS doctors and specialty trainees
Career protection and beyond
Legal protection offered by the NHS and your employer only goes so far. Where it stops is where Medical Protection begins.
Membership provides you with the right to request assistance for cases arising from a range of different situations. It also gives you support throughout GMC investigations and representation at hearings.
Our prices
For doctors on a deanery-approved training scheme:
SAS and locally employed doctors | £429 |
Prices shown are based on work completed exclusively within the NHS and exclude private or fee-paying work. Quotes can also be tailored for doctors working in other hospital roles. You can pay monthly or by direct debit.
We go further than state indemnity. What sets us apart is the range of benefits that can assist and protect you throughout your career, and help you practise more safely.
| Medical Protection | NHS indemnity |
|---|
| The right to request |
| Support in GMC investigations and representation at hearings | ✔ | × |
| Help in disciplinary proceedings, eg ombudsman investigations | ✔ | × |
| Assistance with criminal investigations arising from your clinical practice | ✔ | × |
| Representation and assistance in coroner’s inquests/Fatal Accident Inquiries | ✔ | × |
| Help responding to patient complaints | ✔ | × |
| Medicolegal advice line, available 24/7 in an emergency | ✔ | × |
| Support for managing unwanted media attention | ✔ | × |
| Protection for Good Samaritan acts worldwide | ✔ | × |
| CPD courses and online learning to help prevent issues arising | ✔ | × |
| Access to our confidential counselling service to support you through a stressful case or claim | ✔ | × |
HEE funded indemnity arrangements
We’re providing block indemnity arrangements for selected medical specialty trainees from August 2021 on behalf of Health Education England (HEE).
Important information
Please allow around 20 minutes to complete your online quote. You can save your quote and return to complete your application at any time for up to 30 days.
If you have previously been a member, your membership number will also be required. If you cannot locate your membership number please call us on 0800 561 9000.
What you will need to complete your quote:
- The full address and postcode of the places you practise
- Your scope of practice
- Your GMC reference number
- Your date of primary qualification
- Your full registration date
- Your gross revenue from private work, including any fees, salary, benefits, profit, dividends and bonuses (before expenses)
- Details of previous indemnifiers, gaps in your professional protection, any previous complaints and claim and case history
A full case history, also known as letter of good standing, will be required to support your application if you have held indemnity or insurance with any other providers in the last ten years (periods of state indemnity are not required). Please send us your case history from previous indemnifiers within 42 days of your application being accepted. If we do not receive this within 42 days, or if the information doesn’t match your application form, it could lead to your membership being cancelled.
Referred applications
Sometimes we need to check the information you have provided in your application (for example if you have had a claim in the past). This will mean that, at the end of your online application, you will be told that it has been referred. It can take up to five days for this to be investigated, but your application will still be progressing in the meantime and we will aim to get back to you sooner than that wherever possible.