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Taxi driver medical in Exeter

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

Who can carry it out

Only a provider the council names

The council will not accept a certificate from a doctor of your choosing. Use the provider they name, or you will have paid for a medical twice.

What Exeter requires

“Applicants must be physically fit and produce the medical certificate prior to the grant of a licence. All applicants over the age of 45 years are required to renew their certification on a five yearly basis. All applicants over 65 years of age are required to renew their certificate annually on renewal of their licence”
How often: Before the grant of a first licence; then for drivers over 45, a new certificate every five years; for drivers over 65, annually on renewal of the licence
Form: Council's own 'Medical Examination' form (exeter.gov.uk/media/1304/medical-exam.pdf). NOTE: that PDF is an image-only scan with no extractable text, so its notes pages could not be read and no wording from the form itself is quoted here
Possible exemption: Not stated - no HGV/PSV/PCV or DVLA Group 2 licence exemption is published

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Taken from New driver application - 'Medical test' section. 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 Exeter compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, Exeter is one of only 23 that insist on a provider of their own choosing.

Who may sign it elsewhere in South West

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
Bristol	Any registered doctor with your records
Plymouth	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Bath and North East Somerset	The council does not say
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	Your own GP only
Cornwall	Any registered doctor with your records
Dorset	Any registered doctor with your records
Gloucester	Any GMC-registered doctor
Swindon	Any registered doctor with your records
Torbay	Any registered doctor with your records
Tewkesbury	Any registered doctor with your records
North Somerset	Any GMC-registered doctor
Teignbridge	Any registered doctor with your records

What it costs to be licensed in Exeter

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

Every line above is taken from Exeter’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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