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Taxi driver medical in Newport

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

Who can carry it out

Your own GP only

Only the practice you are registered with can complete this one. You cannot shop around for a cheaper medical, and if your practice is slow to offer appointments that is the timetable you are stuck with, so book early.

What Newport requires

“A medical examination by a General Practitioner with whom the applicant is registered and who has access to the driver's medical records, to assess an applicant's fitness to drive a licensed vehicle, is required before a licence will be granted”
How often: 45 then every 5 years at renewal (i.e. 45, 50, 55, 60); from 65 every year. Annually at any age for licence holders with relevant medical conditions, or more often if the doctor says so
Form: council's own
Possible exemption: HGV/PSV accepted - holders of a current PSV and/or HGV licence who produce proof of a current medical not more than one month old are not required to undergo a further medical
Their own sources disagree on this. Two sources agree on the age ladder: the policy says 45 then every 5 years / 65 then annually, and the 'Existing drivers' web page states medicals at 45, 50, 55 and 60 with annual from 65. No conflict. The HGV/PSV exemption is explicit and generous - worth flagging to drivers Ring them before you book anything.

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Taken from Newport City Council Hackney Carriage & Private Hire Policies - section 6 Medical Examination, pages 7-8. 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 Newport compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, Newport is one of 49 that will only accept your own registered practice, the narrowest option a council can pick.

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
Torfaen	Your own GP only
Monmouthshire	Any registered doctor with your records
Caerphilly	Your own GP only
North Somerset	Any GMC-registered doctor
Cardiff	The council does not say
Bristol	Any registered doctor with your records
Blaenau Gwent	Your own GP only
Rhondda Cynon Taf	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Bath and North East Somerset	The council does not say
Sedgemoor	Any registered doctor with your records
Mendip	Any registered doctor with your records

What it costs to be licensed in Newport

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

Every line above is taken from Newport’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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