DVLA Flashcards
Uncomplicated PCI
1 week
ACS
4 weeks
First unprovoked seizure without abnormalities structural or EEG changes
With structural/ EEG changes
6 months
12 months
Established epilepsy
12 months
Multiple unprovoked seizures
12 months
How many years seizure free for those with epilepsy/ multiple unprovoked seizures for a until 70 licence
5 years
Withdrawal of anti-epileptics
Whilst withdrawing and for six months after
Simple faint
No restriction
Single episode syncope, explained and treated
4 weeks
Single episode syncope unexplained
6 months
Two or more episodes of syncope
12 months
Stroke/ TIA
4 weeks, no need to inform DVLA
Multiple TIAs
3 months off and inform DVLA
Craniotomy
12 months
Pituitary tumour
6 months
Narcolpesy
Until control of symptoms
Chronic neurological disorders
DVLA should be informed can continue to drive
Alcohol misuse
6 months
Alcohol dependency
1 year
Persistent use of cannabis, ecstasy, LSD
6 months
Heroine, cocaine, methadone
1 year
Severe anxiety, depression
Inform DVLA, must not drive
Acute psychotic disorder
Hypomania
Mania
Schizophrenia
Severe disability
Must not drive, inform DVLA
Dementia
Mild LD
Personality disorder
Developmental disorders
ADHD
May drive but must inform DVLA
Mild cognitive impairment
May drive and need not inform DVLA
HGV rules driving and insulin (5)
- No hypoglycaemic episode in the last 12 months
- Hypoglycaemic awareness
- BD monitoring
- Understand the risks of hypoglycaemia
- No other debarring complications of diabetes
Group 1 drivers insulin (3)
- Hypoglycaemic awareness
- No more than 1 episode of hypoglycaemia requiring the assistance of another person within 12 months
- No visual impairment
Blepharospasm
Consultant opinion
Monocular vision
Inform DVLA
May drive if normal acuity on other eye
Visual field defects
Driving must cease unless confirmed able to meet recommended national guidelines for visual field
CABG
4 weeks
Angina
Must stop driving if symptoms occur at rest
Pacemaker
1 week
ICD for ventricular arrhythmia
6 months
ICD prophylaxis
1 month
ICD Group 2 drivers
No driving
Catheter ablation
2 days
AAA
6cm inform DVLA
6.5 not allowed to drive
Heart transplant
6 weeks, do not need to inform DVLA