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  2. Licensing
  3. Healthy to drive
  4. For health professionals
  5. Assessing fitness to drive
  6. Decide a review period and expiry date for the medical certificate

For health professionals

  • Your role
  • Talking with your patients about driving
  • Assessing fitness to drive
    • Choose either the private or commercial standard
    • How to assess a patient’s medical condition for fitness to drive
    • Recommending changes to a patient's driver licence
    • Decide a review period and expiry date for the medical certificate
    • Complete the medical certificate form to give to your patient
  • Notify us about your patient's medical condition

Assessing fitness to drive

Decide a review period and expiry date for the medical certificate

  • Choose either the private or commercial standard
  • How to assess a patient’s medical condition for fitness to drive
  • Recommending changes to a patient's driver licence
  • Complete the medical certificate form to give to your patient

The Assessing Fitness to Drive standards sets review periods you must apply when deciding on an expiry date to record on the Medical Certificate for Motor Vehicle Driver.

The expiry date must be within the maximum review period. However, you can decide you need to review the person’s condition more often and make the expiry date shorter than the specified review period.

In this guide

  1. Choose either the private or commercial standard
  2. How to assess a patient’s medical condition for fitness to drive
  3. Recommending changes to a patient's driver licence
  4. Decide a review period and expiry date for the medical certificate
  5. Complete the medical certificate form to give to your patient

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Last updated:
5 December 2024

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