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Taxi driver medical in Stroud

Which doctor Stroud 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 Stroud’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 Stroud requires

“The medical certificate must show that the doctor has confirmed you are fit to drive a taxi or private hire vehicle and has had access to your medical records or has seen the medical summary”
How long it lasts: 3 months at the point you submit - and if the application then drags on, a certificate more than 6 months old at the decision date may have to be redone
How often: On application, every five years between 45 and 65, and every year from 65
Form: A Group 2 medical certificate from your own GP, or from another suitably qualified practitioner you have given a Summary Medical Record to
Possible exemption: MAYBE - a recent satisfactory Group 2 medical done for a PCV or HGV may be accepted, but only at the Licensing Officer's discretion and only with proof it was done properly and that the DVLA passed you for PCV/HGV

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Taken from Taxi and Private Hire Policy - Drivers, section 3.3 Medical Criteria. 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 Stroud compares

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

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 Stroud

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

Every line above is taken from Stroud’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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