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Taxi driver medical in Gloucester

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

Who can carry it out

Any GMC-registered doctor

The most relaxed category there is. Any doctor on the GMC register can sign it, so a private medical centre is generally faster and cheaper than waiting for a GP appointment.

What Gloucester requires

“A medical report must be completed if: you are a new driver are 45 or over and renewing your licence”
How long it lasts: 3 months - the report must have been completed by a doctor within the last 3 months, and must be no more than 3 months old when you submit it to the Licensing Authority
How often: New drivers, and then only from 45: from 45 you provide a medical report every 5 years until 65. Under 45 there is no routine repeat medical on renewal. From 65 driver licences are issued for one year only, so the medical effectively becomes annual
Form: The Gloucester City Council approved form - the council will not accept another form unless you get prior agreement. Read the council's medical standards BEFORE booking the appointment

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Taken from Driver medical information - when a medical report is needed, the age ladder and the 3-month rule. 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 Gloucester compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, Gloucester 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
Tewkesbury	Any registered doctor with your records
Cheltenham	Any registered doctor with your records
Stroud	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Forest of Dean	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Cotswold	Any registered doctor with your records
Wychavon	Any registered doctor with your records
Malvern Hills	Any registered doctor with your records
Worcester	The council does not say
Herefordshire, County of	Any registered doctor with your records

What it costs to be licensed in Gloucester

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

Every line above is taken from Gloucester’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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