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Medical Protection Society (MPS) was formed in 1892 after a number of high profile negligence and criminal cases in the United Kingdom made the headlines in the 1880s, and it soon became clear that individual doctors then did not have the resources to defend themselves in these cases. Today it is the world’s leading mutual medical defence organisation which has jurisdictions with members in more than 40 countries including in Malaysia, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Caribbean and Bermuda, and Kenya.

MPS aims to help doctors with legal problems that arise from their clinical practice. Members (doctors) in Malaysia seeking help with clinical negligence claims, complaints, legal and ethical dilemmas, and disciplinary procedures have access to expert advice from a team of medicolegal consultants based in Malaysia.

Health Information Management (HIM) / Medical Records (MR) practitioners in Malaysia can browse useful tips on medical records keeping from http://www.medicalprotection.org/malaysia/factsheets/Medical-records (this link will open in a new tab of your current broswer window) and more tips by exploring the MPS website at http://www.medicalprotection.org/malaysia/ (this link will open in a new tab of your current broswer window).