medical practitioners
MIPS offers a large range of membership categories spanning the spectrum of public and/or private practice.
Use the menu on the left to select the field appropriate to you to find out the many benefits offered by MIPS or simply apply to join us now.
MIPS membership benefits include
insurance covers
MIPS membership includes the following insurance covers.
- MIPS Members’ Medical Indemnity Insurance Policy*
- MIPS Members’ Practice Entity Policy*
- MIPS Members’ Group Personal Accident Policy*
*see membership benefits handbook including product disclosure statement.
MIPS protections
MIPS Protections* covers a number of non-medical indemnity professional and business risks that may not be otherwise covered by insurance arrangements. It entitles members to ask that the MIPS Board consider providing protection for claims that arise from risks connected with a member’s practice of his/her profession or healthcare educational activities in Australia.
*see membership benefits handbook including product disclosure statement.
medico-legal support (24/7 helpline)
MIPS members are provided timely, knowledgeable, professional and confidential support from experienced and sympathetic colleagues on medico-legal matters – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Members don’t need to be under threat of litigation to call the MIPS advice line. Approximately 90% of requests for assistance that MIPS receive are concerned with problems unrelated to litigation. MIPS medico-legal advisers can help members with:
- ethical issues
- potential or actual complaints by patients (to members directly, or to their employer/hospital)
- complaints by employer(s)
- the preparation of coroner’s reports (and similar medico-legal reports)
- Health Services and Health Care Complaints Commission matters
- other medico-legal matters