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Company description
THE MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 23 October 1885; registered for 140 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 82990 · Other business support service activities n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 3 trade marks, 2 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- THE MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION LIMITED
- Company number
- 00021708
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
14 December 2025Next statement due
28 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 20 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £744,453
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £0
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £0
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 0.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
MDU Limited adopts their suppliers’ payment terms where explicitly stated on their invoices. New suppliers are set up in the accounting system by the finance team, and the supplier payment terms are included on the supplier record. All invoices registered against a given supplier will automatically have the payment terms on that supplier’s record applied to them. Where no payment terms have been explicitly communicated by the supplier, the new supplier records will be set to ‘pay immediately’. In practice this means that the invoice will be paid, once approved, on the next weekly payment run.
- Dispute resolution process
With respect to contracts with suppliers, the general position is that the appropriate department managers for each supplier first attempt to resolve the dispute (the MDU point of contact varies from contract to contract). The contact would aim to deal with the dispute promptly, and in accordance with the terms of the contract. Additionally, suppliers can contact MDU’s accounts team: accounts@themdu.com
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 18.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
The Medical Defence Union Limited
Registration Z6286835
- Registered from
- 5 March 2002
- Current end date
- 4 March 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
05 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
PDSE Indemnity Insurance
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH · ocds-b5fd17-b3028475-f4d3-4cf5-8326-5fd70effd9da
- Supplier named in award
- THE MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION LIMITED
- Award value
- £185,000
- Contract period
- 1 November 2020 – 31 July 2022
- Published
- 30 July 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 66510000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b3028475-f4d3-4cf5-8326-5fd70effd9da-2020-07-30T11:24:01+01:00
Provision of General Practice Specialty Trainee (GPST) Medical Indemnity Insurance - London and Kent, Surrey, Sussex - Health Education England - NHS/SoEPS/17.382
NHS SOUTH OF ENGLAND PROCUREMENT SERVICES · ocds-b5fd17-d594e6d1-02ad-433f-a610-6a2dee910624
- Supplier named in award
- THE MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION LIMITED
- Award value
- £2,007,350
- Contract period
- 15 June 2018 – 1 August 2021
- Published
- 17 July 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d594e6d1-02ad-433f-a610-6a2dee910624-2018-07-17T12:21:52+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
PRACTICECARE
Owner The Medical Defence Union Limited · classes 35,36,41,42,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 15 June 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 June 2026
PRACTICE MADE FOR YOUR TEAM
Owner The Medical Defence Union Limited · classes 35,36,41,42,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 10 March 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 March 2026
GUIDE. SUPPORT. DEFEND.
Owner The Medical Defence Union Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,41,42,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 13 June 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 8 December 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.