Health professional notification of medical condition

This service allows a health professional to notify the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) when a patient currently holds, or is applying for or renewing, a driver licence, and the health professional believes the patient will:

• not notify TMR of their medical condition; and/or
• not comply with the health professional's recommended conditions/restrictions; and/or
• continue to drive despite advice not to.

Health professionals are not liable, civilly or under an administrative process, for giving information to TMR, or its service delivery agent, in good faith about a person's medical fitness to drive.

The medical condition may be:

• Any permanent or long term medical condition; or
• Any permanent or long term increase in, or aggravation of, a medical condition that the patient has previously advised the department about.

The health professional is not required to notify the department if the patient's medical condition is temporary.

A health professional is:

• a doctor
• a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise, other than as a student, any of the following:
  • in the occupational therapy profession 
  • in the optometry profession
  • in the physiotherapy profession.

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