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Taxi driver medical in Dover

Which doctor Dover 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 Dover’s answer and nobody else’s.

Who can carry it out

Your own GP, or a doctor with your records

Your own practice is the straightforward route, but another doctor can do it if they have had full access to your medical history. Private clinics that request your records can qualify. One that examines you without them cannot.

What Dover requires

“The assessment must be carried out either by the applicant's General Practitioner or by a suitably qualified GMB registered medical practitioner who has access to the applicant's medical records”
How long it lasts: the certificate must be less than 3 months old when it is submitted
How often: on every new driver application, then every 5 years up to age 45, every 3 years from 45 to 60, and annually from age 60; more often if the examining doctor says so
Form: a council request form sent out with the application pack or obtained from the Council - no downloadable form is published
Possible exemption: PSV/HGV licence holders who can produce proof of a current medical examination less than 3 months old, approved by the authority, do not have to take a medical on first application

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Taken from Hackney Carriage & Private Hire Licensing Policy 2022-27 - section 2.9 Medical Assessment, and section 9 Medical Examinations in the private hire driver conditions. 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 Dover compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, Dover is one of 61 that will take another doctor provided they have had your full records.

Who may sign it elsewhere in South East

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
Horsham	Any registered doctor with your records
Milton Keynes	Any GMC-registered doctor
Oxford	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Portsmouth	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Reading	Your own GP only
Brighton and Hove	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Buckinghamshire	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Crawley	Your own GP only
South Oxfordshire	Any registered doctor with your records
Lewes	Any registered doctor with your records
Slough	Any registered doctor with your records
New Forest	The council does not say

What it costs to be licensed in Dover

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

Every line above is taken from Dover’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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