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Taxi driver medical in Derbyshire Dales

Which doctor Derbyshire Dales 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 Derbyshire Dales’s answer and nobody else’s.

What Derbyshire Dales requires

• “A medical examination to DVLA Group 2 Medical Standards, by an appropriately qualified doctor, to assess an applicant’s fitness to drive a licensed vehicle, is required before a licence may be granted”
• How often: Before a licence may be granted, then every three years once licensed (matching the 3-year licence), or more frequently if an appropriately qualified doctor recommends it

Taken from Derbyshire Dales District Council Taxi and Private Hire Licensing Policy (PDF) - section 4.5 'Medical Examination' and Appendix D, Driver's Licence application procedure. 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 Derbyshire Dales compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, Derbyshire Dales is one of 31 that let any GMC-registered doctor sign it, which is the easiest and usually the cheapest position to be in.

Who may sign it in nearby areas

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
North East Derbyshire	Your own GP only
Amber Valley	Any GMC-registered doctor
Staffordshire Moorlands	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Chesterfield	Any GMC-registered doctor
Derby	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Ashfield	Any registered doctor with your records
High Peak	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Erewash	Any registered doctor with your records
Stoke-on-Trent	The council does not say

What it costs to be licensed in Derbyshire Dales

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

Every line above is taken from Derbyshire Dales’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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