DVLA help

calflye

Hi! So DVLA sent a questionnaire to someone in my mental health team (who I've never met, spoken to and was not the doctor I named on my M1 form they'd sent me). My team also haven't actually received this letter but when I called the DVLA to ask if they could resend it to them or send it to the secretary's email, they just told me to wait. The doctor they sent it to is the senior consultant but my psychiatrist works under him. His job title says SpR doctor to the senior doctor, I don't know if that helps. My psychiatrist said even if the form from the senior consultant was there, he would be the one filling it out, not the senior doctor. My psychiatrist sees me regularly and is the person involved in my care so surely they would accept it from him(?)

I had an appointment with my psychiatrist 3 days ago and I spoke with him about the DVLA with the medical stuff and he agreed to fill out the form and that he supports me in learning to drive. He then sent me a form that I'd scanned and sent to the psychiatrist 2 weeks ago (it has MHDEC Reply letter written on the form so I assume that's what it's called). Everything looks good, he's said I've been stable for 3 months and meet the minimum standard to hold a licence. There is also no need for a longer stability.

I've sent this to DVLA along with a recent psychiatrist report and they are very detailed with it all which helps me. The report mentions my diagnoses, having good insight, appearance, behaviour, mood, thoughts (no suicidal or self-harming ideation), no abnormal perception, good cognition and their overall impression is that I'm stable and engaging with any and all treatments.

Surely the report and the form from my psychiatrist is enough to give them the answers they need? I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a decision based on other evidence to the DVLA that provides clear and recent insight into your conditions?

Thank you for reading :)

calflye

I called DVLA today to ask them if they could resend the medical form to my psychiatrist again and the woman on the phone obviously took my name and DOB down. She then said she could see the medical evidence I submitted yesterday and they're reviewing that. I then asked about the medical questionnaire to the doctor because I thought that's what she meant, like waiting on something. But she said they're reviewing all current evidence and will give an update soon. Apologies if I sound stupid but would it be possible for someone to help me understand what this means? I'm not good at figuring out what it means when people have to use all these professional words I'm so sorry