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10th Nov 2021

DVLA warns of £1,000 fine if you fail to declare over 200 medical conditions

Kieran Galpin

Driving

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 the Daily Record.

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.

Here is a full list of said conditions:

  • Absence seizures
  • Acoustic neuroma
  • Addison’s disease
  • Agoraphobia
  • AIDS
  • Alcohol problems
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Amaurosis fugax
  • Amputations
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  • Angina
  • Angioma
  • Angioplasty
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Anxiety
  • Aortic aneurysm
  • Arachnoid cyst
  • Arrhythmia
  • Atrial defibrillator
  • Arteriovenous malformation
  • Artery occlusion
  • Arthritis
  • Asperger syndrome
  • Ataxia
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • Autistic spectrum condition
  • Balloon angioplasty (leg)
  • Behçet’s disease
  • Benign peripheral retinal pigmentation
  • Best’s disease
  • Bilateral artery occlusion (retinal)
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Blackouts
  • Blepharospasm
  • Blood clots
  • Blood pressure
  • Brachial plexus injury
  • Brain abscess, cyst or encephalitis
  • Brain aneurysm
  • Brain angioma
  • Brain haemorrhage
  • Brain injury (traumatic)
  • Brain tumours
  • Branch retinal vein occlusion
  • Broken limbs
  • Brugada syndrome
  • Burr hole surgery
  • Caesarean section
  • Cancer
  • Cataracts
  • Catheter ablation
  • Cardiac problems
  • Carotid artery stenosis
  • Cellophane retinopathy
  • Cataplexy
  • Central chorio retinopathy
  • Central serous retinopathy
  • Central vein occlusion
  • Central venous thrombosis
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Chemical eye burn
  • Chiari malformation
  • Choroidal infarction
  • Choroidal neovascular
  • Choroidal nevus
  • Choroiditis
  • Chronic aortic dissection
  • Chronic central serous retinopathy
  • Coats’ disease
  • Cogan’s dystrophy
  • Cognitive problems
  • Coloboma
  • Congenital heart disease
  • Convulsions
  • Corneal degeneration
  • Corneal graft
  • Coronary artery bypass or disease
  • Coronary angioplasty
  • Cranial arteritis
  • Cranial nerve palsy (without double vision)
  • Cupped optic disc
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Cytomegalovirus
  • Deafness
  • Defibrillator
  • Déjà vu
  • Dementia
  • Depression
  • Detached retina
  • Diabetes
  • Diabetic retinopathy (with laser treatment)
  • Dilated cardiomyopathy
  • Diplopia (double vision)
  • Dizziness
  • Drug misuse
  • Duane syndrome (without double vision)
  • Eales
  • Eating disorders
  • Embolism (retinal)
  • Empyema (brain)
  • Epilepsy
  • Epiretinal membrane
  • Esophoria (without double vision)
  • Essential tremor
  • Estropia (without double vision)
  • Eye haemorrhage
  • Eye tumour
  • Fainting
  • Fits
  • Fractured skull
  • Friedreich’s ataxia
  • Fuch’s dystrophy
  • Fuch’s heterochromic cyclitis
  • Giant cell arteritis
  • Glaucoma
  • Global amnesia
  • mal seizures
  • Guillain-Barré syndrome
  • Head injury
  • Heart attack
  • Heart arrhythmia
  • Heart failure
  • Heart murmurs
  • Heart palpitations
  • Heart valve disease or replacement valve
  • Hemianopia
  • Herpes zoster ophthalmicus
  • Heterophoria (without double vision)
  • High blood pressure
  • High myopia
  • Hodgkin’s lymphoma
  • Horner’s syndrome
  • Huntington’s disease
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Hypertension
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Hypoglycaemia
  • Hypoxic brain damage
  • Hysterectomy
  • Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
  • Intracerebral haemorrhage
  • Iris nevus
  • Ischaemic heart disease
  • Keratitis
  • Keratoconus
  • Kidney dialysis
  • Kidney problems
  • Korsakoff’s syndrome
  • Labyrinthitis
  • Learning difficulties
  • Left bundle branch block
  • Leukaemia
  • Lewy body dementia
  • Limb disability
  • Long QT syndrome
  • Low blood sugar
  • Lumboperitoneal shunt
  • Lung cancer
  • Lymphoma
  • Macular cyst
  • Macular degeneration
  • Macular hole
  • Macular oedema
  • Macular pucker
  • Maculopathy
  • Malignant brain tumours
  • Malignant melanoma
  • Manic depressive psychosis
  • Marfan’s syndrome
  • Medulloblastoma
  • Melanoma (ocular)
  • Memory problems (severe)
  • Meningioma
  • Mini-stroke
  • Monocular vision
  • Motor neurone disease
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Myocardial infarction
  • Myoclonus
  • Narcolepsy
  • Neovascularistion of the optic nerve head
  • Neuritis (retrobulbar)
  • Night blindness
  • Nuclear sclerosis
  • Nystagmus
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder
  • Obstructive sleep apnoea
  • Ocular albinism
  • Ocular histoplasmosis
  • Ocular hypertension
  • Ocular myasthenia gravis (without double vision)
  • Ophthalmoplegia (without double vision)
  • Optic atrophy
  • Optic neuritis
  • Pacemakers
  • Palpitations
  • Paranoia
  • Paranoid schizophrenia
  • Paraplegia
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Perifoveal atrophy
  • Peripapillary nevus
  • Peripheral arterial disease
  • Peripheral neuropathy
  • Personality disorder
  • Petit mal seizures
  • Pituitary tumour
  • Posner Schlossman syndrome
  • Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Posterior capsular opacification
  • Pseudophakia
  • PsychosisPsychotic depression
  • Pulmonary arterial hypertension
  • Reis Bucklers corneal dystrophy
  • Renal dialysis
  • Retinal artery fugax
  • Retinal artery thrombosis
  • Retinal embolism
  • Retinal haemorrhage
  • Retinal occlusion (artery or vein)
  • Retinal photocoagulation
  • Retinal pigment epithelial atrophy
  • Retinal tear or detachment
  • Retinal treatment
  • Retinal vein thrombosis
  • Retinoblastoma
  • Retinopathy (with laser treatment)
  • Retinopathy fibroplasia
  • Retinopathy of prematurity
  • Retinoschisis
  • Retrobulbar neuritis
  • Schizo-affective disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Scotoma
  • Seizures
  • Severe communication disorders
  • Sight in one eye only
  • Sleep apnoea
  • Sleepiness (excessive)
  • Spinal problems and injuries
  • Squint (without double vision)
  • Strabismus (without double vision)
  • Stroke
  • Subarachnoid haemorrhage
  • Surgery
  • Syncope
  • Tachycardia
  • Temporal arteritis
  • Temporal lobe epilepsy
  • Thyroid related orbitopathy
  • Tonic clonic fits
  • Tourette’s syndrome
  • Transient global amnesia
  • Transient ischaemic attack
  • Tunnel vision
  • Usher syndrome
  • Uveitis
  • Valve disease or replacement valve
  • Vein occlusion
  • Ventricular defibrillator
  • Vertigo
  • Vision in one eye only
  • Visual acuity (reduced)
  • Visual field defects
  • Vitreous haemorrhage
  • VP shunts
  • Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

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