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Taxi driver medical in Dacorum

Which doctor Dacorum will accept, how often you have to repeat it and which form they want. Councils disagree with each other on every one of those, so this is Dacorum’s answer and nobody else’s.

Who can carry it out

Any registered doctor with your records

You are not tied to your own surgery, which usually means a shorter wait and a lower fee. The condition is the records: the doctor must have seen your full history, not just examined you on the day.

What Dacorum requires

“Every application for a new licence or to renew a licence will be required to be accompanied by a medical certiﬁcate, in a format speciﬁed by the Council, completed by the applicant’s own GP or by another suitably qualiﬁed medical practitioner who has had access to the applicant’s medical records covering a minimum period of at least 5 years”
How often: On first application, then at every renewal (three-yearly) until 65; from 65 a completed certificate must be submitted annually, on the anniversary of the grant of the most recent licence
Form: Form D4/DBC, Dacorum's own Group 2 medical examination report. A copy is included in every driver licence application pack, and it is also downloadable from the driver licences page

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Taken from Dacorum Borough Council Taxi and Private Hire Licensing Policy - section 15 'Medical suitability' (15.1 who may examine, 15.3 the three-yearly/annual cycle). Rules change and councils rewrite their pages without notice, so confirm before you book and pay. If something here is wrong please say and I will check it against the council and fix it.

How Dacorum compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, Dacorum is one of 105 taking that line, which is the most common arrangement in the country.

Who may sign it elsewhere in East of England

Neighbouring authorities do not follow each other on this, and a certificate accepted in one is regularly refused in the next. Check the area whose badge you actually hold.

Licensing area	Who can carry out the medical
Cambridge	The council does not say
Luton	Your own GP only
Norwich	Any registered doctor with your records
Peterborough	Any GMC-registered doctor
Central Bedfordshire	Any registered doctor with your records
Huntingdonshire	Any registered doctor with your records
Bedford	Any GMC-registered doctor
Broadland	Any registered doctor with your records
West Suffolk	Any registered doctor with your records
Colchester	The council does not say
East Suffolk	Any registered doctor with your records
Watford	Your own GP only

What it costs to be licensed in Dacorum

The medical is one bill among several. See what Dacorum charges for the driver, vehicle and operator licences, taken from the same published sources.

Every line above is taken from Dacorum’s own published guidance and read by hand against that source. Nothing here is from trade press, a forum or an estimate. This is not medical or legal advice.

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