Form

Report your medical condition (form B1)

Report certain types of medical conditions to DVLA if you're a car driver or motorcyclist.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Published: 1 April 2012
• Last updated: 17 April 2025 — See all updates

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B1

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Details

Use this form to report these medical conditions:

• acute subdural haematoma
• aneurysm
• arachnoid cyst
• Arnold-Chiarim malformation
• arteriovenous malformation
• blood clots
• brain abscess, cyst or encephalitis
• brain injury
• burr hole surgery
• cerebral palsy
• chronic subdural haematoma
• head injury
• hydrocephalus
• hypoxic brain damage
• Lewy body dementia
• serious head injury
• subarachnoid haemorrhage
• transient global amnesia
• VP shunt
• other related conditions

Check the list of health conditions if yours is not listed.

Use a different form to report these conditions if you have a lorry, bus or coach licence.

Find out what happens after you tell DVLA.

Published 1 April 2012

Last updated 17 April 2025 + show all updates

1. 17 April 2025

   Updated B1 PDF and ODT forms.

2. 15 November 2024

   Updated the B1 PDF and ODT.

3. 20 March 2024

   Updated English PDF and accessible version.

4. 15 January 2024

   Updated PDF and medical conditions list.

5. 10 August 2022

   Updated PDF.

6. 20 July 2022

   Updated PDF.

7. 9 November 2020

   Update to Welsh pdf

8. 23 October 2020

   Updated version of the B1 medical form.

9. 4 March 2020

   Update to list of conditions.

10. 25 November 2019

    PDF update

11. 22 November 2019

    Update to epilepsy section on Welsh form

12. 7 February 2019

    Updated pdf

13. 26 September 2018

    Updated PDF

14. 22 May 2018

    PDF updated

15. 26 July 2017

    Added translation

16. 18 July 2017

    PDF updated

17. 23 February 2017

    Updated pdf

18. 20 May 2016

    Guillain Barré syndrome removed from list.

19. 11 April 2016

    Latest version of B1 form added - epilepsy questions (3-7) have been changed.

20. 1 August 2014

    This form can no longer be used for benign essential tremor.

21. 26 February 2014

    The main sections of the questionnaire (pages 2 & 3) have been reviewed and changed.

22. 10 January 2014

    Question 11d on page 3 has been removed, the return form (page 5) has also been updated.

23. 1 April 2012

    First published.