Healthcare professionals believe that you need more support to drive patients to your fitness advice.
And research conducted for the Department for transport (DfT) suggests that, although more than two-thirds (69%) of UK medical schools specific training to evaluate to the steering wheel to take the ability of patients, some medical professionals properly advise patients in all cases.
Studies built by Dr. Carol Hawley from Warwick University found that, when presented with 12 scenarios based on four medical conditions - stroke, diabetes, depression and epilepsy - only 7.5% of health professionals properly all 12 patients fitness to drive judged. Moreover, the trend toward rating was to ride than fit if you were medically unfit.
The report branded total involved knowledge of the medical considerations as "poor".
The overwhelming majority of both medical students (92%) of patients with a condition that drive (91%) could affect their ability to said that physicians have a duty to discuss driving fitness with their patients.
Research, first published in January, has after a parliamentary written answer last week to spotlight zurückgegeben.Dies showed that the number of drivers in the ages 65 or under who had their licence denied or has been withdrawn, on medical grounds risen dramatically to 7,351 at 15,632 last year in 2005.
Meanwhile there was a modest rise in the older drivers of 6,070 9,979 in the same period.
While attention recently has focused on the safety of older drivers, the past initiatives have proposed regular health checks for all drivers.
See the best practices of the University of Warwick are media campaigns to raise awareness of the problem in the public report and recently suggests leaflets to patients to informieren.Es changes to medical training and materials from practitioners, potentially similar with regular Visual tests for drivers, and when assessing a restricted accreditation system "for certain medical conditions" - proposed by the Institute of advanced motorists.
