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Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals
Advice for medical professionals to follow when assessing a patient's fitness to drive.
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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 6 months. It has replaced the medical at a glance.
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Published 11 March 2016
Last updated 14 February 2019 + show all updates
Last updated 14 February 2019 + show all updates
- Message added: A PDF version of the guidance will be available soon.
- Updated pdf for Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals (August 2018).
- Survey for medical professionals added.
- PDF updated. For more information about the amendments made, see page 2 of the PDF.
- 'Excessive sleepiness including obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome' section updated.
- PDF updated.
- PDF updated.
- Survey removed.
- Change to the neurology chapter. Transient loss of consciousness with seizure markers has been updated.
- General updates to the guide.
- First published.