It is YOUR responsibility to tell the DVLA about a health or medical condition that could affect your driving.
You can be fined up to £1,000 if you do not tell DVLA about a medical condition that affects your driving.
You can do this via the “Report a medical condition” page.
You’ll need to enter details about your current driving licence and your condition. You might also need to give your GP’s name and address.
How this will affect your ability to drive will depend on what the cause of your cardiac arrest was, any remedial treatment you have had and any subsequent or other conditions you have.
You will have to enter or select from a list of conditions that you have and may affect your ability to drive.
The list is quite long and covers many conditions but you will NOT find cardiac arrest amongst them as it is an event, rather than a condition.
Conditions that are on the list and may apply to cardiac arrest survivors:
- Heart attacks (Angioplasty, stents)
- Having an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
- Brugada syndrome
- Catheter Ablation
- Cognitive problems
- Congenital heart disease
- Arrhythmias
- Heart Failure
- Hypoxic Brain Injury
- Long QT Syndrome
- Severe memory problems
- Pacemakers
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Fainting/Syncope
- Tachycardia
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome