The principles of assessing a person’s fitness to drive are described in Part A of Assessing Fitness to Drive (Section 2).
While the legal obligations of drivers, health professionals and licensing authorities remain unchanged, the 2022 edition of Assessing Fitness to Drive emphasises the important role of health professionals in advising drivers about the impact of their medical conditions/disabilities on driving in the short and long term. This acknowledges drivers’ reliance on health professional advice to inform them of driver legal reporting obligations and to support these processes. It also underpins the importance of early and repeated conversations about driving for people diagnosed with progressive conditions.
The step by step process of assessing a patient’s fitness to drive and reporting to the driver licensing authority is also described in Part A and illustrated with a series of easy-to-use flow charts. The flow charts can be downloaded as PDFs below.
Medical decision-making process for assessing fitness to drive
Conducting an examination at the request of a driver licensing authority (DLA)
Assessing and reporting on fitness to drive in the course of patient treatment
