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Taxi driver medical in Sedgemoor

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

Who can carry it out

Any registered doctor with your records

You are not tied to your own surgery, which usually means a shorter wait and a lower fee. The condition is the records: the doctor must have seen your full history, not just examined you on the day.

What Sedgemoor requires

Who licenses you now: Sedgemoor District Council was abolished on 1 April 2023. Somerset Council issues your licence, but it still runs Sedgemoor as a separate licensing zone with its own rules and its own forms. Somerset's driver page makes you pick a district before it shows you anything, and the four zones genuinely differ - do not read Mendip's or South Somerset's answer across to Sedgemoor
“A medical form completed by someone with access to your medical records”
How often: A medical form is required with the application. Sedgemoor-zone licences all expire on 30 November on a three-yearly cycle, whenever you joined. Somerset publishes no age ladder or renewal interval for this zone - ring licensing
Form: A medical form completed by someone with access to your medical records. The form is downloaded from the website; the council does not post application packs

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Taken from Somerset Council - Taxi or Private Hire driver licence, Sedgemoor area. Before you start and Application requirements. 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 Sedgemoor compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, Sedgemoor is one of 105 taking that line, which is the most common arrangement in the country.

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
Exeter	Only a provider the council names
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

What it costs to be licensed in Sedgemoor

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

Every line above is taken from Sedgemoor’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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