britishpub
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DVLA has updated the ‘Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals’ guidance.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/diabetes-mellitus-assessing-fitness-to-drive
There are two changes relating to Diabetes
The Secretary of State’s Honorary Medical Advisory Panel on Driving and Diabetes has defined adequate awareness of hypoglycaemia as whether ‘the licence holder/applicant [is] capable of bringing their vehicle to a safe controlled stop’.
The reliance on alarms on glucose monitoring devices are not accepted as a substitute for adequate symptomatic or physiological awareness of hypoglycaemia experienced by the driver.
Should a driver become reliant on these alarms to advise them that they are hypoglycaemic they must stop driving and notify the DVLA.
and for Group 2 licence holders
There is a clarification that for drivers receiving Insulin treatment the required frequency of examination with the applicant’s usual doctor is at least every 3 years.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/diabetes-mellitus-assessing-fitness-to-drive
There are two changes relating to Diabetes
The Secretary of State’s Honorary Medical Advisory Panel on Driving and Diabetes has defined adequate awareness of hypoglycaemia as whether ‘the licence holder/applicant [is] capable of bringing their vehicle to a safe controlled stop’.
The reliance on alarms on glucose monitoring devices are not accepted as a substitute for adequate symptomatic or physiological awareness of hypoglycaemia experienced by the driver.
Should a driver become reliant on these alarms to advise them that they are hypoglycaemic they must stop driving and notify the DVLA.
and for Group 2 licence holders
There is a clarification that for drivers receiving Insulin treatment the required frequency of examination with the applicant’s usual doctor is at least every 3 years.