Health conditions and driving

    You may need to tell DVLA if you have one of these health conditions or medical treatments and you have a driving licence.

    Select your condition from the list to get the medical questionnaires or forms you may need to send to DVLA.

    A

    Acoustic neuroma
    Addison’s disease
    Agoraphobia
    AIDS
    Alcohol problems
    Alzheimer’s disease
    Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – see Motor Neurone Disease
    Amputations
    Aneurysm
    Angina
    Angioma
    Angioplasty
    Ankylosing spondylitis
    Anorexia nervosa – see Eating disorders
    Anxiety
    Arachnoid cyst
    Arnold-Chiari malformation
    Arrhythmia
    Arteriovenous malformation
    Arthritis
    Asperger syndrome
    Ataxia
    Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
    Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)

    B

    Balloon angioplasty (leg)
    Bipolar disorder
    Blackouts
    Blepharospasm
    Blood clots
    Blood pressure
    Brachial plexus
    Brain abscess, cyst or encephalitis
    Brain angioma – see Angioma
    Brain haemorrhage
    Brain injury (traumatic)
    Brain tumours
    Branch retinal vein occlusion
    Broken limbs and driving
    Burr hole surgery

    C

    Caesarean section
    Cancer
    Cataracts
    Catheter ablation
    Cardiac problems
    Carotid artery stenosis
    Cataplexy
    Cerebral palsy
    Chronic aortic dissection
    Cognitive problems
    Congenital heart disease
    Convulsions
    Coronary artery bypass or disease
    Coronary angioplasty
    Cystic fibrosis

    D

    Deafness
    Defibrillator
    Déjà vu
    Dementia
    Depression
    Diabetes
    Dilated cardiomyopathy
    Diplopia (double vision)
    Dizziness
    Drug misuse

    E

    Eating disorders
    Empyema (brain)
    Epilepsy
    Essential tremor

    F

    Fainting – see Blackouts
    Fits – see Seizures
    Fractured skull – see Head injury
    Friedrich’s ataxia – see Ataxia

    G

    Giddiness (recurring)
    Glaucoma
    Global amnesia – see Transient global amnesia
    Grand mal fits
    Guillain-Barré syndrome

    H

    Head injury
    Heart attack
    Heart arrhythmia – see Arrhythmia
    Heart failure
    Heart murmurs
    Heart palpitations
    Hemianopia
    High blood pressure
    HIV
    Hodgkin’s lymphoma
    Huntington’s disease
    Hydrocephalus
    Hypertension – see High blood pressure
    Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
    Hypoglycaemia
    Hypoxic brain damage
    Hysterectomy

    I

    Intracerebral haemorrhage
    Ischaemic heart disease

    K

    Kidney dialysis
    Kidney problems
    Korsakoff’s syndrome

    L

    Labyrinthitis
    Learning difficulties
    Left bundle branch block
    Leukaemia
    Lewy body dementia
    Limb disability
    Lumboperitoneal shunt
    Lung cancer
    Lymphoma

    M

    Macular degeneration
    Malignant brain tumours – see Brain tumours
    Malignant melanoma
    Manic depressive psychosis – see Bipolar disorder
    Marfan syndrome
    Medulloblastoma
    Memory problems (severe)
    Meningioma
    ‘Mini-stroke’ – see Transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
    Monocular vision
    Motor neurone disease
    Multiple sclerosis
    Myasthenia gravis
    Myocardial infarction – see Heart attack
    Myoclonus

    N

    Narcolepsy
    Night blindness
    Nystagmus

    O

    Obsessive compulsive disorder
    Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome
    Optic atrophy
    Optic neuritis

    P

    Pacemakers
    Palpitations – see Heart palpitations
    Paranoia – see Paranoid schizophrenia
    Paranoid schizophrenia
    Paraplegia
    Parkinson’s disease
    Peripheral arterial disease
    Peripheral neuropathy
    Personality disorder
    Petit mal seizures
    Pituitary tumour
    Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
    Psychosis
    Psychotic depression

    R

    Renal dialysis – see Kidney dialysis
    Retinal treatment
    Retinopathy

    S

    Schizo-affective disorder
    Schizophrenia
    Scotoma
    Seizures
    Sight in one eye only – see Monocular vision
    Sleep apnoea
    Sleepiness (excessive daytime)
    Spinal problems and injuries and driving
    Stroke
    Subarachnoid haemorrhage
    Syncope – see Blackouts

    T

    Tachycardia
    Temporal lobe epilepsy – see Epilepsy
    Tourette’s syndrome
    Transient global amnesia
    Transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
    Tunnel vision

    U

    Usher syndrome

    V

    Valve disease or replacement valve
    Vertigo
    Vision in one eye only – see Monocular vision
    Visual acuity (reduced)
    Visual field defects
    VP shunts

    W

    Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome