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Taxi driver medical in Tunbridge Wells

Which doctor Tunbridge Wells 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 Tunbridge Wells’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 Tunbridge Wells requires

“A medical examination form completed by your own GP, and relevant identification from the ID checklist can be provided at anytime during the process”
How long it lasts: SIX WEEKS - the examination must have been completed by your own GP within six weeks
How often: With a new application and again at every renewal. Tunbridge Wells publishes no age ladder
Form: The Licensing Partnership's Confidential Medical Report. Book with your OWN GP; only if your GP will not offer the service may you use a doctor listed under the British Medical Association instead

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Taken from Driver licences - what you need to apply and renew, including the six-week rule. 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 Tunbridge Wells compares

Of the 315 UK licensing areas checked so far, Tunbridge Wells 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
Maidstone	Your own GP only
Rother	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Tonbridge and Malling	The council does not say
Ashford	Any GMC-registered doctor
Wealden	Your own GP, or a doctor with your records
Hastings	Any registered doctor with your records
Sevenoaks	Any registered doctor with your records
Swale	Any registered doctor with your records
Folkestone and Hythe	Any registered doctor with your records
Eastbourne	Any registered doctor with your records

What it costs to be licensed in Tunbridge Wells

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

Every line above is taken from Tunbridge Wells’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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