Applying for a driving licence for the first time
Last Updated:
14 Oct 2009Review Due Date:
14 Apr 2010You 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.
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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
- 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
- Epilepsy and caring for children: a comprehensive guide
- Epilepsy in later life
- Epilepsy information for prisons
- Getting a diagnosis
- Identity jewellery
- Inheritance
- Learning disabilities
- 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
- Live online: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1230-1330 UK time








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