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DVLA’s ‘Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals’ UPDATE
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<blockquote data-quote="britishpub" data-source="post: 2226848" data-attributes="member: 175573"><p>DVLA has updated the <a href="https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDAzMDQuMTgxNjg4NjEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5nb3YudWsvZ292ZXJubWVudC9jb2xsZWN0aW9ucy9hc3Nlc3NpbmctZml0bmVzcy10by1kcml2ZS1ndWlkZS1mb3ItbWVkaWNhbC1wcm9mZXNzaW9uYWxzIn0.9KPxUMwHnXxIaDGgQsECvZaAW8LvbDsHIAz0rjEF2l8/br/75651036439-l" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000">‘Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals’</span></a> guidance.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/diabetes-mellitus-assessing-fitness-to-drive" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/diabetes-mellitus-assessing-fitness-to-drive</a></p><p></p><p>There are two changes relating to Diabetes</p><p></p><p><em>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’.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The <strong>reliance on alarms</strong> on glucose monitoring devices are not accepted as a substitute for adequate symptomatic or physiological awareness of hypoglycaemia experienced by the driver.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Should a driver become reliant on these alarms to advise them that they are hypoglycaemic they must stop driving and notify the DVLA.</em></p><p></p><p>and for Group 2 licence holders</p><p></p><p>There is a clarification that for drivers receiving Insulin treatment the required frequency of examination with the applicant’s usual doctor is <strong>at least every 3 years.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="britishpub, post: 2226848, member: 175573"] DVLA has updated the [URL='https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDAzMDQuMTgxNjg4NjEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5nb3YudWsvZ292ZXJubWVudC9jb2xsZWN0aW9ucy9hc3Nlc3NpbmctZml0bmVzcy10by1kcml2ZS1ndWlkZS1mb3ItbWVkaWNhbC1wcm9mZXNzaW9uYWxzIn0.9KPxUMwHnXxIaDGgQsECvZaAW8LvbDsHIAz0rjEF2l8/br/75651036439-l'][COLOR=#000000]‘Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals’[/COLOR][/URL] guidance. [URL]https://www.gov.uk/guidance/diabetes-mellitus-assessing-fitness-to-drive[/URL] There are two changes relating to Diabetes [I]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 [B]reliance on alarms[/B] 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.[/I] 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 [B]at least every 3 years.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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