Applying for a driving licence for the first time
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Last updated 14 Oct 2009, review date due 14 Apr 2010
You will need to complete an application form for a provisional driving licence (from Post Offices). To be allowed a provisional driving licence you will have to meet the epilepsy driving regulations.
We can provide references and information on the source material we use to write our epilepsy advice and information pages. Please contact our Epilepsy Helpline by email at helpline@epilepsy.org.uk.
Epilepsy advice and information A to Z
- What is epilepsy?
- Children
- Depression
- Disability Discrimination Act (UK)
- Driving
- The driving agencies
- UK driving regulations
- How long will my driving licence last for?
- Driving law relating to a first epileptic seizure/solitary seizure
- Applying for a driving licence for the first time
- Driving law relating to epilepsy
- Driving rules for different types of seizure
- Driving rules for provoked seizures
- Why you should stop driving when you have had a seizure
- Car Insurance
- Informing the driving agency that you have had a seizure
- Can I ask the driving agency to review their decision?
- Reapplying for your driving licence
- Withdrawing your anti-epileptic drugs
- Driving for a living
- Help with travel costs
- Education
- Employment
- Entitlements for people with epilepsy in England
- Entitlements for people with epilepsy in Wales
- Epilepsy and caring for children: a comprehensive guide
- Epilepsy and learning disabilities
- Epilepsy in later life
- Epilepsy information for prisons
- Getting a diagnosis
- Identity jewellery
- Inheritance
- Living with dificult to control epilepsy
- Me and my dad
- Memory
- Men and Epilepsy
- Mobile phones and epilepsy
- Osteoporosis, osteomalacia and epilepsy
- Photosensitive epilepsy
- Safety
- Seizures
- Sports and leisure
- Stress and epilepsy
- Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
- Swine flu and epilepsy
- Syndromes
- Travel abroad
- Treatment
- Women and epilepsy
- Young people and epilepsy
- Epilepsy Action and the Information Standard
- The Epilepsies: You, Epilepsy and the NICE Guideline
- Epilepsy Action Information Reviewers (EAIRs)
- Technical editing/writing and copyright
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Epilepsy Helpline
- UK freephone 0808 800 5050
- International +44 113 210 8850
- Email: helpline@epilepsy.org.uk
- Txt msg: 07797 805 390 info








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Thanks for the link, another member of our stay at home dad community was looking for this information. Cheers, Ed