The DVLA requests a long list of medical conditions be brought to their attention or risk being hit with hefty fines and a possible licence surrender.
The licensing authority currently lists 118 conditions that must be reported otherwise a £1,000 fine may be issued or possible prosecution if an accident occurs. It comes as the DVLA is set to update its guidance relating to eye conditions in the coming weeks.
After filling in certain forms or questionnaires on your condition, the agency will assess your situation and decide what the best next steps are.
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You may have to get a new driving licence, which could include a shorter licence - for one, two, three or five years. You may also need to fit your car with special controls to accommodate your condition, reports the Daily Record.
Conditions you must report to the DVLA
- Absence seizures
- Acoustic neuroma
- Agoraphobia
- Alcohol problems
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Amaurosis fugax
- Amputations
- Angiomas or cavernomas
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Anxiety
- Aortic aneurysm
- Arachnoid cyst
- Arrhythmia
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Arthritis
- Asperger syndrome
- Ataxia
- ADHD
- AIDS
- Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
- Blackouts
- Blood clots
- Blood pressure
- Brachial plexus injury
- Brain abscess, cyst or encephalitis
- Brain aneurysm
- Brain haemorrhage
- Traumatic brain injury
- Brain tumour
- Broken limbs
- Brugada syndrome
- Burr hole surgery
- Cancer
- Cataracts
- Cataplexy.
- Central venous thrombosis
- Cerebral palsy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT)
- Cognitive problems
- Congenital heart disease
- Fits, seizures or convulsions
- Déjà vu
- Defibrillators
- Dementia
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Diplopia (double vision)
- Dizziness or vertigo
- Drug use
- Eating disorder
- Empyema (brain)
- Essential tremor
- Eye conditions
- Guillain Barré syndrome
- Head injury
- Heart attacks
- Heart failure
- Heart palpitations
- Hemianopia
- Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Huntington's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hypoxic brain damage
- Intracerebral haemorrhage
- Korsakoff's syndrome
- Labyrinthitis
- Learning disabilities
- Lewy body dementia
- Limb disability
- Long QT syndrome
- Lung cancer
- Lymphoma
- Marfan's syndrome
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningioma
- Motor neurone disease
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myoclonus
- Narcolepsy
- Night blindness
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Excessive sleepiness
- Optic atrophy
- Pacemakers
- Paranoid schizophrenia
- Paraplegia
- Parkinson’s disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Personality disorder
- Pituitary tumour
- Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Psychosis
- Psychotic depression
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Severe memory problems
- Stroke
- Surgery
- Syncope
- Seizures/epilepsy
- Sleep apnoea
- Schizo-affective disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Scotoma
- Severe communication disorders
- Spinal conditions, injuries or spinal surgery
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Tachycardia
- Tourette's syndrome
- Tunnel vision
- Usher syndrome
- Reduced visual acuity
- Vertigo
- Visual field defect
- VP shunts
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