DVLA warns of £1,000 fine if you fail to declare over 100 medical conditions

JOE

If you don’t let them know, you could be prosecuted

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has warned motorists across the UK that they could be served £1,000 fines if they don’t declare if they are suffering from any one over 200 medical conditions.

The DVLA has also warned that those who don’t declare their conditions could be prosecuted if they are involved in an accident, reports Stoke-on-Trent Live.

It is believed that millions of drivers in the UK are currently using the roads without having been candid about their health.

While some are undoubtedly making a conscious decision to not disclose their health issues, it is also believed that many don’t know they need to declare it.

As well as a long list of health conditions, sufferers of diabetes and cancer must also inform the DVLA of their condition if they meet these conditions.

For those with diabetes, if you have insulin treatment over the course of longer than three months, if you experienced diabetes while pregnant and persisted beyond three months postpartum, or if you have been warned of hypoglycemia.

For those with cancer or lymphoma, the DVLA must be informed if you come into brain or nervous system issues, if your medication impacts your ability to drive or if you need adaptations to your vehicle due to your condition. Additionally, if your doctor has advised against driving, you must inform the DVLA.

Here is a list of other conditions to inform the DVLA of:

Agoraphobia
Alcohol problems
Alzheimer’s disease
Amputations
Angiomas or cavernomas
Ankylosing spondylitis
Anorexia nervosa
Anxiety
Aortic aneurysm
Arachnoid cyst
Arrhythmia
Arteriovenous malformation
Arthritis
Ataxia
ADHD
AIDS
Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
Blood clots
Blood pressure
Brachial plexus injury
Brain abscess, cyst or encephalitis
Brain aneurysm
Brain haemorrhage
Traumatic brain injury
Brain tumour
Broken limbs
Brugada syndrome
Burr hole surgery
Cataracts
Cataplexy
Central venous thrombosis (if still having problems after one month)
Cerebral palsy
Cognitive problems
Congenital heart disease
Fits, seizures or convulsions and driving
Déjà vu and driving
Defibrillators
Dementia
Depression (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)
Diplopia (double vision)
Dizziness or vertigo (if sudden, disabling or recurrent)
Drug use
Empyema (brain)
Essential tremor (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)
Eye conditions
Guillain Barré syndrome
Head injury (serious)
Heart failure (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)
Heart palpitations
Hemianopia
Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Huntington’s disease
Hydrocephalus
Hypoglycaemia
Hypoxic brain damage
Intracerebral haemorrhage
Korsakoff’s syndrome
Labyrinthitis (if symptoms last three months or longer)
Learning disabilities
Lewy body dementia
Limb disability
Long QT syndrome
Marfan’s syndrome
Medulloblastoma
Meningioma (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)
Motor neurone disease
Muscular dystrophy
Myasthenia gravis
Myoclonus
Narcolepsy
Night blindness
Obsessive compulsive disorder (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)
Excessive sleepiness
Optic atrophy
Pacemakers
Paranoid schizophrenia
Paraplegia
Parkinson’s disease
Peripheral neuropathy
Personality disorder
Pituitary tumour
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)
Psychosis
Psychotic depression
Pulmonary arterial hypertension
Severe memory problems
Stroke (if you’re still having problems after one month)
Surgery (if you’re still unable to drive three months later)
Syncope (including blackouts or fainting)
Seizures/epilepsy
Sleep apnoea
Schizo-affective disorder
Schizophrenia
Scotoma
Severe communication disorders (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)
Spinal conditions, injuries or spinal surgery
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
Tachycardia
Tourette’s syndrome (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)
Tunnel vision
Usher syndrome
Reduced visual acuity
Vertigo
Visual field defect
VP shunts
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome