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Guidance: Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals

Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency

January 15
11:30 2024

Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals

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These are medical standards of fitness to drive for medical professionals. This guidance is also available as HTML and is usually updated every 12 months. It has replaced the medical at a glance.

The guidance is prepared on the advice of the Secretary of State for Transports Honorary Medical Advisory Panels.

If you are not a medical professional, view health conditions and driving.

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Published 11 March 2016
Last updated 15 January 2024 +show all updates
  1. PDF updated. For more information about the amendments made, see pages 2 to 3 of the PDF.

  2. Updated 'Details' section with a link to the 'Secretary of State for Transports Honorary Medical Advisory Panels' guidance page and advice to sign up for email alerts to receive the latest vacancies for DVLA's medical advisory panels.

  3. Updated PDF.

  4. Updated PDF.

  5. PDF updated.

  6. Survey for medical professionals closed - link removed.PDF updated

  7. PDF added.

  8. Message added: A PDF version of the guidance will be available soon.

  9. Updated pdf for Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals (August 2018).

  10. Survey for medical professionals added.

  11. PDF updated. For more information about the amendments made, see page 2 of the PDF.

  12. 'Excessive sleepiness including obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome' section updated.

  13. PDF updated.

  14. PDF updated.

  15. Survey removed.

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