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Taxi driver medical in Stockton-on-Tees

Which doctor Stockton-on-Tees 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 Stockton-on-Tees’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 Stockton-on-Tees requires

“Once you have applied a Medical Examination Report document will be sent to your home address if applicable that you and your GP need to complete and return”
How often: New applicants: at first application. Existing licensees over 45: every five years. From age 65: annually
Form: Council's own Medical Examination Report, posted to the applicant's home address after they apply. Not the DVLA D4
Possible exemption: YES - a genuine, clearly stated exemption. No medical assessment is needed for holders of a provisional or current HGV entitlement, and the new-grant document list says the medical is not required where the applicant evidences a Group 2 driving entitlement on their DVLA licence

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Taken from Licensing policy - Licensed drivers section (medical assessment). 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 Stockton-on-Tees compares

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

Who may sign it elsewhere in North East

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
Durham	Any registered doctor with your records
Middlesbrough	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Newcastle	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Gateshead	Any registered doctor with your records
North Tyneside	Any registered doctor with your records
Northumberland	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Sunderland	Any registered doctor with your records
Redcar and Cleveland	Any registered doctor with your records
Hartlepool	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Darlington	Any registered doctor with your records
South Tyneside	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records

What it costs to be licensed in Stockton-on-Tees

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

Every line above is taken from Stockton-on-Tees’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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