Our Council say it has to be a doctor with full access to your medical records. Our medical practice wont let you see anyone but your own doctor.

Which is the point of my original post.

I presume you phoned, the council and checked with them ? What did they say

I phoned the council. They said, “hello?”




This is not an isolated incident, or at least it won’t be an isolated incident.

The BMA policy is heading towards not doing medicals for taxi drivers. Why? Well, it’s that pesky Yes/No, fit/ unfit question. They don’t want to be the one to offer an opinion on whether or not a person is to drive a taxi. Box ticking is to be a no no.

Is there a requirement in law for taxi drivers to have regular medicals?
I do not mean a requirement made by licensing officers within councils, I mean national law.

Therefore, if an applicant was unable to acquire a medical from any doctor, because they were unable to find a medical practitioner who was willing to fill out the council form, would a council be acting legally by refusing to license a driver who had not had a satisfactory medical?

I am told that doctors might carry out a medical, but would leave the decision as to the fitness to Drive would be made by a licensing officer. So an applicant with a complex medical history would be judged by an unqualified licensing officer. Bye-bye medicals? Entirely possible! Entirely pointless anyway.

Not Pointless,many a time something has been picked up at a medical examination.

I am told that doctors might carry out a medical, but would leave the decision as to the fitness to Drive would be made by a licensing officer. So an applicant with a complex medical history would be judged by an unqualified licensing officer. Bye-bye medicals? Entirely possible! Entirely pointless anyway.

They cannot pick and choose,if they do them for HGV,BUS DRIVERS,AIRLINE PILOTS,OFFSHORE WORKERS AND SEAMEN declaring whether they are fit or unfit to fulfil their duties,I would think they will be infringing
the rights of everyone to be treaty equally.
Stop doing them for our trade and they will have to stop doing them for everyone else leading to mass unemployment.

Hardly surprising that clinicians don't want the onus of deciding who's fit and proper - legally that's the ultimate responsibility of local authorities, rightly or wrongly:

But are they being asked that?

Our medical forms are merely tick box exercise. The doctor just ticks or puts in the details of what he has observed during the examination.

It's still down to the council to determine if the driver is fit and proper, based on what the medical form states.