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Taxi driver medical in Manchester

Which doctor Manchester 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 Manchester’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 Manchester requires

Must be completed by your own doctor, or another doctor with access to a reasonable medical summary sufficient for clinical decision-making.
Required on a new application, then at ages 45, 50, 55, 60 and 65. After 65, every year. Some conditions need one annually regardless.
Take photo ID — a passport or DVLA licence — so the doctor can confirm who you are.
You must sign the driver declaration in front of the doctor carrying out the examination.
The council can require this under section 57 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976.

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Taken from manchester.gov.uk, Group II medical examination report form, updated 25 March 2026. 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 Manchester compares

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

Who may sign it elsewhere in North 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
Blackpool	Any GMC-registered doctor
Bolton	Any GMC-registered doctor
Cheshire West and Chester	Any registered doctor with your records
Liverpool	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Preston	Any registered doctor with your records
Salford	Any registered doctor with your records
Trafford	The council does not say
Wigan	Any GMC-registered doctor
Knowsley	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Lancaster	The council does not say
Oldham	Any registered doctor with your records
Rochdale	Any registered doctor with your records

What it costs to be licensed in Manchester

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

Every line above is taken from Manchester’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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