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Advice for medical professionals to follow when assessing drivers with renal and respiratory disorders.
It's illegal to drive if you're unfit to do so because you're on legal or illegal drugs, or you have certain levels of drugs or medicine in your blood
Advice for medical professionals to follow when assessing drivers with visual disorders.
Advice for medical professionals to follow when assessing drivers with drug or alcohol misuse or dependence.
Appendix to the assessing fitness to drive guide for medical professionals.
Who can teach you to drive, practising with friends and family, driving lessons, insurance, using L and P plates.
Research about learning to drive and driving tests.
You can sit in and observe a driving test if you're 16 or over, but you cannot take any part in the test and you must follow certain rules.
Check if you're old enough, or have the right kind of driving licence, to drive different kinds of vehicle
Driving licence categories - entitlements on your licence and what vehicles you can drive - cars, motorcycles, mopeds, medium and large lorries, minibuses and buses.
You must tell DVLA if you have Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT): how to report it to DVLA, what form to download and send depending on the vehicle you drive.
Find driving lessons, book and manage theory and driving tests, tests for different vehicles
Research carried out with approved driving instructors about how many pupils they're teaching, and their attitudes towards mock driving tests.
Groups and categories for driving licences issued before 15 October 2012 - find equivalent new licence categories and what vehicles you can drive
Explains changes to drug driving law and the guidance available for healthcare professionals and users of prescription medicine.
The standards set out what it takes to be a safe and responsible driver, rider or cyclist, and to provide training to drivers, riders and cyclists.
Check someone's driving record - vehicles they can drive, penalty points and disqualifications
Advice for medical professionals for assessing fitness to drive.
You must tell DVLA if you have peripheral neuropathy - download the correct form to let them know
Data and statistics about the number of theory tests and driving tests taken in Great Britain, pass rates, and the number of instructors.
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