skippy41 wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
£60 is par for course...thoughour local GP says they won't be doing it.
The absurdity of it is that the Don't actually need a D4 (Group 2 Medical certificate) but a signed declaration from your GP that they should sign a letter to say you have reached an equivelant level of a D4 certificate..the D4 in itself is of no consequence.
Called the Waverley practice yesterday, how much for one of these medicals, Oh we are refusing to do them,and every practice in the Borders, and have a letter you can send to the council explaining why.
They have checked with the DVLA and it only applies to bus and lorry drivers, the doctor said who gave me the letter, that should anyone fail , they could carry on driving a private vehicle, so the medical is pointless.
Just wondering how the council will react,as its being introduced from the 1st of April, and what we as drivers can do about it, if they bring in an outsider ,can our doctors divulge our medical history??
Not every practice, some will do it others wont, mine says they will but my wifes says they wont, however mines says they'll do my wifes.
I think what has set off the Jungle drums in local GP practices is a less than precise set of instructions from either Holyrood or the LA, they pretty much ask for something that is not anyones to give, it does not really exist...there is no Group 2 or D4 medical for Hacks or PH drivers.
This first surfaced about 7 years when our SBC Passenger transport section stated all School drivers needed a D4 medical which we all had done, but then it transpires that just because you have one done it's not a certificate of health and more a tool thats supposedly passed on to the DVLA so that they can make a call on whether your up to HGV or PSV levels of acceptable fitness. In itself and without the DVLA such D4s or Group 2 medicals are meaningless.
No Hack or PH driver needs a Group 2 or D4 medical, they just need a letter from your doctor to the effect that you are likely to have passed a D4 or group 2 medical had you had one. and the SBC have a pre written letter that you can take to your GP for them to complete, having spoken to a Doctor today he said it was not the procedure that created the problem but their lack of advice on what to write and word a letter as proof of health...hopefully if you take a copy of this SBC Medical document it'll remove your GPs reluctance to complete one.
Really...it's Holyrood that suggested this and like everything else from that place it was never understood by those who thought it was a good idea to issue it as guidance to Scotlands LA's who seem to confuse ill conceived guidance as a Must DO policy.
One big needless fechin cockup.....a simple medical would have sufficed, we are driving cars not piloting the first manned mission to mars.