About Us
Over 90 percent of New Zealand medical professionals only carry discretionary, rather than assured, professional indemnity insurance, exposing themselves to significant professional and personal risk.
As a health professional practicing in NZ you can expect an average of one complaint a year to be brought against you. Assured cover for when you need it, has never been more important.
Why choose Medicus
Medicus offers Aotearoa’s most comprehensive professional indemnity insurance for doctors and allied health practitioners including dentists, dental technicians, nurses, physician assistants, anesthetic technicians, radiographers, physiotherapists and a variety of others.
Our insurance provides assured support in the event of a complaint, disciplinary proceedings or other legal process being brought against our members in connection with their professional services. It provides access to leading medico-legal advisory services, incident support, legal specialists and risk management.
We are a New Zealand owned and operated not-for-profit membership organisation, with insurance provided through our brokers Aon, and AA- rated NZI, one of the country’s largest insurers. Our key legal experts, Gaeline Phipps and Dr Peter Robinson, are among the most highly regarded medico-legal professionals in the country.
How we work
Medicus Indemnity insurance is managed by New Zealand's leading insurance broker, Aon New Zealand, and is underwritten by AA-rated NZI.
Your Medicus membership allows you to access our in-house medico-legal advisers at any point for support and guidance, should an incident occur. We will guide you every step of the way, providing assured support when your professional services are in question and your reputation is at stake.
Our board
The Medicus Board of Directors are all New Zealand registered or retired health practitioners or legal advisers.
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Richard is a NZ graduate who trained as an upper GI and Hepatobiliary surgeon in the UK and the US. He returned to NZ in 1986 to the University Dept of Surgery in Wellington. In 1991 he founded the Wakefield Clinic for Gastrointestinal Disease which became an important private clinic in Wellington offering secondary and some tertiary care to patients with a variety of complex gastrointestinal and hepatic problems. In 1995 he opened a private basic science research facility which for 20 years conducted important research into inflammatory bowel disease, colorectal cancer, obesity and metabolic disease. He held a Professorial appointment within the University of Otago from 2008-13 to lead his research group, The Wakefield Biomedical Research Unit, which had transferred from the Wakefield Clinic to the University of Otago, Wellington. He was for 10 years on the Board of Directors of Wakefield Health Ltd, both before and after its listing on the NZX. He is now retired from clinical practice but continues as Managing Director of P3 Research Ltd, one of New Zealand’s leading clinical research companies, which has clinical research sites in Wellington, Tauranga, Hawkes Bay, Kapiti Coast and Palmerston North. He was President of the NZ Association of Clinical Research from 2016-2019.
He has significant interest and experience in the ever-changing medico-legal environment in NZ, having himself been embroiled, on numerous occasions during his professional career, on matters related to informed consent in a variety of jurisdictions. He joined the Medicus Board in 2018 and became its Chairman in 2021.
Richard Stubbs
Richard Stubbs
Medicus Chairman and Managing Director of P3 Research
Wellington
Gaeline Phipps
Dr Wayne Cunningham is an experienced general practitioner, who returned from Bahrain in 2022, having been Professor of Family Medicine with the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland-Medical University of Bahrain, for some years. Prior to his departure from New Zealand in 2015 he was a Board member of Medicus and a longstanding GP in Milton, Otago and Senior Lecturer at the Dunedin School of Medicine. Wayne is currently a GP in Upper Hutt and has had a longstanding interest in the impact on doctors of the receipt of complaints.
Wayne is not only an experienced GP but a published author, an experienced teacher and a recognised communicator within the Medical fraternity.
Wayne Cunningham
Wayne Cunningham
Registered Medical Practitioner (GP)
Wellington
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Andrew is a part time family physician, convenor of Professional Conduct Committees, deputy chairman of Medic Alert (NZ), Board member of Medicus and has been a member of Angel HQ since 2009. He retired from the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) after 20 years’ service in 2016. Military roles included Health Advisor for all NZDF deployed missions, Director of Army health, Chairperson of the Five Nations Medical Intelligence Committee (2005), New Zealand’s representative on the Five Nations Health Interoperability Committee (2002 -2012) and commander on the NZ Combat Hospital in East Timor (2000). He holds a post graduate diploma in Aviation Medicine with an interest in the interface between humans and machines and is also on the board of Seen Safety.
Andrew Dunn
Pippa graduated from Otago University Medical School in 1978 and after 7 years working mostly in the UK, but also Australia and New Zealand, she purchased a partnership at the Ilam Medical centre as a GP, where she still remains. Pippa also works as a Medical Officer for the Canterbury DHB (and its predecessors) performing terminations of pregnancy, as she has since 1989. In 1989 she joined the Board – of the NZMA, becoming Chairman in 1999 – 2001. In 2017-2018 she was President of NZMA. Pippa was appointed to the Southern Regional Health Authority in 1992-1996.
From 2003-2008 she was the Chair of Medicines New Zealand and the previous year in 2002, was an elected member of the Medical Council. She has 3 adult daughters and has interests in music, literature and art, travel, and wine. She has written wine columns for NZ Doctor and in the 1980s , for The Press.
Pippa Kelly
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Pippa graduated from Otago University Medical School in 1978 and after 7 years working mostly in the UK, but also Australia and New Zealand, she purchased a partnership at the Ilam Medical centre as a GP, where she still remains. Pippa also works as a Medical Officer for the Canterbury DHB (and its predecessors) performing terminations of pregnancy, as she has since 1989. In 1989 she joined the Board – of the NZMA, becoming Chairman in 1999 – 2001. In 2017-2018 she was President of NZMA. Pippa was appointed to the Southern Regional Health Authority in 1992-1996.From 2003-2008 she was the Chair of Medicines New Zealand and the previous year in 2002, was an elected member of the Medical Council. She has 3 adult daughters and has interests in music, literature and art, travel, and wine. She has written wine columns for NZ Doctor and in the 1980s , for The Press.
Pippa Mackay
Andrew Dunn
Registered Medical Practitioner (GP)
Wellington
Pippa Mackay
General Practitioner
Christchurch
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Roderick is the Founder and Director of Caliburn Medical Services, a multi-doctor practice that has supported services in multiple aged-care facilities in Auckland for over a decade. He also holds a law degree and practices part-time as a barrister in Wellington, in the criminal and medico-legal fields. Roderick has experience as a company director in a number of privately held companies.
He will bring important experience and knowledge to the Medicus board through his experience in medical services and law, and we look forward to the contributions he will make to Medicus.
Roderick Mulgan
Roderick Mulgan
MBChB, FRNZCGP,
Master Public Policy, LLB (Hons)
Peter is the principal medico-legal advisor for Medicus. Both medically and legally trained, he was instrumental in the formation of Medicus and a founding board member.
Peter offers more than twenty-five years of experience in the medico-legal field through his private consultancy to the legal, insurance and indemnity industries. He holds Postgraduate Fellowships in Occupational, Public Health, Forensic and Legal Medicine and Medical Administration. His earlier career was with the New Zealand Defence Force as a medical officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy and he was an elected member of the Medical Council of New Zealand until 2015.
He was invested as a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order for services to the Royal Family.
Dr Peter Robinson
Dr Peter Robinson
Principal Medicolegal Advisor
Our medicolegal team
NZI engage with a variety of other law firms and lawyers through-out NZ, with particular medico-legal experience and expertise on an as required basis.
Gaeline Phipps
Long-standing member of Medicus Legal Panel
You can contact Gaeline Phipps at: gphipps@professionallaw.co.nz
Dr Peter Robinson
Principal Medicolegal Advisor
You can contact Dr Peter Robinson at:
