I recently sent my driver's licence in to the DVLA for renewal. They have sent me a 14-page medical questionnaire for completion. This may be routine now for elederly drivers but the "event" that seems mostly to concern them took place 50 months ago and I have been OK since. I can't see any problem in completing the forms but wonder if I should add a covering letter noting that:-
-I passed the IAM test (before the event)
-I recently had a top-up lesson
-I have attended two local authority brush-up driving classroom sessions in recent years and am booked in for a third on January 27th.
-or does this look like special pleading and be likely to lead to futher complications? What does the Forum think?
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I think you just have to grin and bear it and fill in the form. I doubt whether the system is able to cope with special pleading.
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Doesn't the Human Rights Act give you the right to medical confidentiality?
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Doesn't the Human Rights Act give you the right to medical confidentiality?
No not for a driving license, (Normal PSV and HGV) or certain jobs (like airline pilots train drivers)
Nor should it
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To comment we really need some basic detail of the "event"
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I can't see any problem in completing the forms ....
The questionnaire may be merely a formality and you may be worrying unnecessarily. Don't try to cross bridges before you get to them.
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Rather than citing IAM etc, probably more useful to include a short letter from GP or consultant that dealt with the problem explaining that you're now over it and in their professional opinion safe to drive.
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Agree with David H.
Thie issue here is fitness to drive and no doubt the questionirre covers vision, circualtion including any cerebral incidents, epilepsy or other lapses of consciousness etc etc.
Thirty years accident free and any IAM etc I may have will count for nowt if by tomorrow I'm found to have tunnel vision. Mrs B's cousin is just coming to the end of a twelve month suspension of her licence after she was found on the floor of her office - possible epilepsy?
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Likely the chair warmers will type all the info into a computer, and based on a 'model' will make a determination, rather than have a healthcare professional make an an assessment.
Such is the way of the world these days.
My brother had the misfortune of filling in a medical questionnare once, where the Q was "Is there any common cause of death in the male members of your family?"
He answered "Yes".
"What was it?"
"The German Navy"
That must have stuffed their system up!
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