What to bring

Diabetes treated with tablets or non-insulin injections

Anyone with diabetes treated by tablets (such as gliclazide, metformin) or non-insulin injections.

You must bring

  • Your full diabetes medicines list.
  • If you take gliclazide, glimepiride, repaglinide or nateglinide: your glucose meter with your readings.
  • Your latest diabetes check letter or blood test result if you have one.

What the DVLA says (Group 2 standard, used for D4 and taxi medicals)

  • Bus and lorry drivers with diabetes on any tablets or injections must tell the DVLA.
  • If your tablets can cause hypos (such as gliclazide), you also need full hypo awareness, no severe hypo in the last 12 months, and to test your glucose at least twice a day and at times relevant to driving.

Taxi and private hire medicals use this same Group 2 standard in most councils. Source: DVLA, Assessing fitness to drive.

Why we ask

The form asks which medicines you take and whether you have had hypos. The meter readings answer this.

This page explains the DVLA standard in plain English. It is not a decision about you. The doctor decides what can be signed on the day, and your council or the DVLA makes the licensing decision.