Hire Vehicle Driver Medicals
This Council requires drivers of hackney carriage and private hire vehicles to attain the DVLA Group 2 Vocational Licence Standard. This is the same medical standard that a lorry or bus driver needs to achieve. The standard is a higher medical standard than that required for an ordinary Group 1 DVLA driver's licence. Further information on the DVLA Group 2 Standard can be found here:
The driver medical must be undertaken by a Doctor who has access to the licence applicant's medical records and has full knowledge of the applicant's past medical history. The medical must be completed on this Authority's medical form. A copy of the form can be found under Related Documents at the bottom of this webpage.
The report must be submitted to the Council together with your licence application. The report must be received at the Council within two months of the Doctor signing it.
If your medical is to be carried out by a private medical practitioner, then they will need to ensure that they have full access to your medical records and history. If they do not have access to your medical records, then the following websites explain how you can access your medical records:
https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/how-to-access-your-health-records/
You would then need to give the records to the private medical practitioner and the private medical practitioner will need to make a note on our medical form indicating how they were able to have access to your medical history. We cannot accept a medical where the completing Doctor did not have access to the licence applicant's medical records and did not have knowledge of the applicant's past medical history.
Whilst we cannot recommend a specific private practitioner - you may wish to look at the following websites:
https://www.barnetby-medical-centre.co.uk/
If you choose to use one of the above private medical practitioners, or any other private practitioner, please make them aware of the above contents of this webpage.