DVLA lists 118 medical conditions you must report or risk £1,000 fine | UK | News

Drivers have been warned they could face a £1,000 fine if they fail to report their health condition to the DVLA. While some health problems do not need to be reported to the licensing authority, others may mean you have to stop driving temporarily or permanently or even give up your licence.

Failure to do so not only means your driving will be affected, but also puts other people at risk. According to the DVLA: “You must say DVLA About some medical conditions that may affect your driving. “If you fail to notify the DVLA of a medical condition that affects your driving you could be fined up to £1,000.”

It is stated that in some cases you may have to give up your license voluntarily, and in other cases the DVLA will decide whether you can continue to have your licence. It makes the following recommendations:

“You can surrender your license voluntarily. For example, you may choose to do this in the following situations:

• your doctor tells you to stop driving for 3 months or longer
• If your medical condition affects your ability to drive safely and lasts 3 months or longer
• You do not meet the standards required to drive due to your medical condition

“You’ll have to say DVLA and send them your license. If you have a health problem that affects your ability to drive and you do not voluntarily give up your license, you must report the situation. DVLA. “They will decide whether you can continue to get a licence.”

The DVLA has approved a list of 118 conditions that all drivers must declare to avoid being fined. This is the complete list in alphabetical order.

• Absence seizures – you should report any epileptic seizure or loss of consciousness and stop driving immediately
• Acoustic neuroma: You should report this if you experience sudden and disabling dizziness. Speak to a doctor if you are unsure whether your acoustic neuroma is causing other symptoms that affect your driving or whether you need to report them to the DVLA.
• Agoraphobia: Ask your doctor if agoraphobia affects your driving.
• alcohol problems
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
• Amaurosis fugax – stop driving for at least a month after a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or mini-stroke and start again when the doctor tells you it is safe
• Amputations – You must declare any amputated limbs
• Angiomas or cavernomas
• Ankylosing spondylitis – talk to your doctor if it affects your driving
• Anxiety – check with your doctor if anxiety is affecting your ability to drive safely.
• Aortic aneurysm: If your aortic aneurysm is 6 cm or more in diameter, you must declare it. If your aortic aneurysm is 6.5 cm or more in diameter, you should not drive.
• arachnoid cyst
• Arrhythmia – you should report your arrhythmia if you have symptoms that distract or impede you, or if your condition means you cannot stop or control the car safely
• Arteriovenous malformation
• Arthritis – you must declare this if you use special controls to drive
• Asperger syndrome – you must declare whether your autistic spectrum condition affects your ability to drive safely
• Ataxia
• ADHD – You must declare whether your ADHD or ADHD medications affect your driving
• AIDS
• Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
• Blackouts: Ask your doctor if fainting, fainting, or loss of consciousness may affect your ability to drive.
• Blood clots – these should be reported if they are in your brain, but not if they are in your lungs
• Blood pressure – report if your treatment affects the way you drive
• Brachial plexus injury
• Brain abscess, cyst or encephalitis
• brain aneurysm
• brain hemorrhage
• Traumatic brain injury
• Brain tumor – your doctor may tell you to surrender your driver’s license
• Broken limbs – you must declare if you are unable to drive for more than three months due to a broken limb
• Brugada syndrome
• Burr hole surgery – You must declare whether you have had surgery to remove a clot from around your brain
• Cancer – You should report this if you develop problems with your brain or nervous system, if your doctor tells you that you are unfit to drive, that you are restricted to certain types of vehicles or vehicles adapted for you, or that your medications are causing side effects that may affect your driving.
• Cataracts – you should only declare if this condition affects both of your eyes
• cataplexy
• Central venous thrombosis – If you are still having problems one month after central venous thrombosis, you need to declare it.
• cerebral palsy
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT)
• cognitive problems
• Congenital heart disease
• Seizures, seizures, or convulsions
• Déjà vu – this should be reported if you are having seizures or epilepsy that causes déjà vu
• Defibrillators – only if you have an implanted defibrillator, also known as an ‘ICD’
• dementia
• Depression – you must declare whether your depression affects your ability to drive safely
• Diabetes – you must declare if your insulin treatment lasts for more than three months, if you have gestational diabetes and your insulin treatment continues for more than three months after birth, if you are disabling hypoglycaemia, or if a medical professional has told you that you are at risk of developing the condition.
• Diplopia (double vision)
• Dizziness or lightheadedness – You should report if you are experiencing sudden, disabling or recurring dizziness.
• Drug use – declare if you have used illegal drugs or misused prescription drugs
• Eating disorder – you must declare whether your eating disorder affects your ability to drive safely
• Empyema (brain)
• Essential tremor – You must declare whether your essential tremor affects your ability to drive
• Eye conditions – only if both eyes are affected
• Guillain Barré syndrome
• Serious head injuries
• Heart attack: You do not need to declare whether you have had a heart attack (myocardial infarction) or heart, cardiac or coronary angioplasty. However, you should stop driving: one week if you had angioplasty and it was successful and you do not need further surgery, four weeks if you had angioplasty after a heart attack but it was not successful, or four weeks if you had a heart attack and did not have angioplasty
• Heart failure: If symptoms affect your ability to drive safely, distract you from driving, or occur while you are at rest, you should declare heart failure.
• heart palpitations
• hemianopsia
• Hodgkin’s lymphoma: You need to report this if you develop problems with your brain or nervous system, if your doctor says you may be unfit to drive, if you are restricted to certain types of vehicles or vehicles adapted for you, or if your medications cause side effects that may affect your driving.
• Huntington’s disease
• Hydrocephalus – only if you have hydrocephalus with symptoms
• hypoglycemia
• Hypoxic brain injury
• Intracerebral hemorrhage: If you still have problems one month after the intracerebral hemorrhage, you should declare this
• Korsakoff syndrome
• Labyrinthitis – you should declare if you have had symptoms of labyrinthitis for three months or longer
• Learning disabilities – You must report all learning disabilities, not learning difficulties such as dyslexia.
• Lewy body dementia
• limb injury
• Long QT syndrome
• Lung cancer – only if you are affected by any of the following: problems with your brain or nervous system, your doctor says you are unfit to drive, you are restricted to certain types of vehicles or vehicles adapted to you, or your medicine causes side effects that may affect your driving
• Lymphoma – only if you develop problems with your brain or nervous system, if your doctor has expressed concerns about your fitness to drive, if you can only drive a specially adapted vehicle or a certain type of vehicle, or if your medicine causes side effects that may make it unsafe for you to drive
• Marfan syndrome
• medulloblastoma
• Meningioma – only if it affects your ability to drive safely
• motor neuron disease
• muscular dystrophy
• myasthenia gravis
• myoclonus
• narcolepsy
• night blindness