The Medical Defence Union

The MDU, through its Corporate Indemnity Solution (CIS), offers companies corporate membership to help protect them from corporate clinical indemnity risks. Corporate membership includes indemnity for the vicarious liability of the company for the alleged clinical negligence of the company's identified staff. A further benefit of corporate membership is that practice managers and practice nurses employed by the company can apply to become individual MDU members free of charge. Their free membership, which applies only while they are employed by the company and while the company is an MDU corporate member, includes the following benefits: access to the MDU's 24-hour medico-legal advice line access to seek assistance in preparing a case and representation at a Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing relating to matters of clinical practice and personal misconduct access to seek support with criminal investigations and proceedings arising from clinical practice access to seek advice and representation in dealing with press or media enquiries. Free individual MDU membership for practice nurses and practice managers doesn't include individual professional indemnity. We will not provide advice and representation under this free membership for practice nurses and practice managers who are in dispute with, or face disciplinary action from, the company itself.