Full list of 180 medical conditions drivers must tell the DVLA or risk £1k fine

With the Easter bank holiday underway and many people expected to travel across the country during the long weekend, drivers are urged to check that all their details are correct and up to date. Anyone with a specific health condition must inform the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) or risk facing a penalty. Penalties can potentially reach £1,000 for failing to comply.

Drivers can check whether they need to inform the DVLA about their condition on Gov.uk and locate the forms or questionnaires they require. Separate forms for various conditions and disabilities are available, too. Get in touch with DVLA if you're unsure what steps to take.

A statement on Gov.uk reads: "You must tell DVLA if you have a driving licence and you develop a notifiable medical condition or disability, or a condition or disability has got worse since you got your licence." It adds: "You could be fined up to £1,000 if you do not tell DVLA about a condition that might affect your ability to drive safely. You could also be prosecuted if you have an accident."

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Notifiable conditions are anything that could impact your ability to drive safely. They can include diabetes or taking insulin, syncope (fainting), heart conditions (including atrial fibrillation and pacemakers), sleep apnoea, epilepsy, strokes and glaucoma. According to the DVLA, more than 180 medical conditions may affect safe driving, a list of over 100 can be viewed below. You can find in the full A to Z list on Gov.uk.

Diabetes

For diabetes, it's vital to notify the DVLA if:

Your insulin therapy extends (or is expected to extend) beyond three months.
You experienced gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy), and your insulin therapy persists beyond three months postpartum.
You suffer from incapacitating hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), or a medical expert has warned of the risk of its development.

Cancer

For cancer or lymphoma, it's necessary to notify the DVLA only if:

You encounter issues related to your brain or nervous system.
Your physician advises that you may not be fit for driving.
You're limited to specific vehicle types or require vehicle adaptations due to your condition.
Your medication induces side effects that could impact your ability to drive safely.

If you're uncertain about the potential effects of cancer on driving, speak with your doctor for guidance.

Other conditions on the list are:

Agoraphobia
Alcohol problems
Alzheimer’s disease
Amputations
Angiomas or cavernomas
Ankylosing spondylitis
Anorexia nervosa
Anxiety
Aortic aneurysm
Arachnoid cyst
Arrhythmia
Arteriovenous malformation
Arthritis
Ataxia
ADHD
AIDS
Bipolar disorder (manic depression)
Blood clots
Blood pressure
Brachial plexus injury
Brain abscess, cyst or encephalitis
Brain aneurysm
Brain haemorrhage
Traumatic brain injury
Brain tumour
Broken limbs
Brugada syndrome
Burr hole surgery
Cataracts
Cataplexy
Central venous thrombosis (if still having problems after one month)
Cerebral palsy
Cognitive problems
Congenital heart disease
Fits, seizures or convulsions and driving
Déjà vu and driving
Defibrillators
Dementia
Depression (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)

Diplopia (double vision)

Dizziness or vertigo (if sudden, disabling or recurrent)

Drug use

Empyema (brain)

Essential tremor (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)

Eye conditions (such as glaucoma)

Guillain Barré syndrome

Head injury (serious)

Heart failure (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)

Heart palpitations

Hemianopia

Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Huntington's disease

Hydrocephalus

Hypoglycaemia

Hypoxic brain damage

Intracerebral haemorrhage

Korsakoff's syndrome

Labyrinthitis (if symptoms last three months or longer)

Learning disabilities

Lewy body dementia

Limb disability

Long QT syndrome

Marfan's syndrome

Medulloblastoma

Meningioma (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)

Motor neurone disease

Muscular dystrophy

Myasthenia gravis

Myoclonus

Narcolepsy

Night blindness

Obsessive compulsive disorder (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)

Excessive sleepiness

Optic atrophy

Pacemakers

Paranoid schizophrenia

Paraplegia

Parkinson’s disease

Peripheral neuropathy

Personality disorder

Pituitary tumour

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)

Psychosis

Psychotic depression

Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Severe memory problems

Stroke (if you're still having problems after one month)

Surgery (if you're still unable to drive three months later)

Syncope (including blackouts or fainting)

Seizures/epilepsy

Sleep apnoea

Schizo-affective disorder

Schizophrenia

Scotoma

Severe communication disorders (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)

Spinal conditions, injuries or spinal surgery

Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Tachycardia

Tourette's syndrome (if it impacts your ability to drive safely)

Tunnel vision

Usher syndrome

Reduced visual acuity

Vertigo

Visual field defect

VP shunts

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

You must surrender your licence to DVLA if your doctor tells you to stop driving for three months or more, your medical condition affects your ability to drive safely and lasts for three months or more, or if you do not meet the required standards for driving because of your medical condition. You can apply to get your licence back when you meet the medical standards for driving again.

After you tell the DVLA about your health, Gov.uk says: "You’ll get a decision by letter. Your application may need further information from a healthcare professional, depending on your condition." The DVLA might contact your doctor or consultant, arrange for you to be examined and ask you to take a driving assessment, or an eyesight or driving test.

It adds: "Your application may take longer than usual if it needs to be referred to a doctor (unless you’re applying for a bus or lorry licence). You can usually keep driving while DVLA are considering your application."