Form

Report your medical condition (form VOCH1)

Report certain types of heart conditions to DVLA if you're a lorry, bus or coach driver.

• From: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Published: 1 April 2012
• Last updated: 17 October 2025
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  1. 17 October 2025

     Added aortic stenosis to the list of medical conditions

  2. 4 July 2025

     Update to question 1k on the PDF and ODT documents.

  3. 4 April 2025

     Updated PDF and ODT

  4. 25 February 2025

     PDF updated, ODT added.

  5. 10 August 2022

     Updated PDF.

  6. 20 July 2022

     Updated PDF

  7. 4 March 2020

     To add Brugada Syndrome and Long QT Syndrome to the list of medical conditions you need to report.

  8. 28 January 2020

     Added translation

  9. 22 May 2018

     PDF updated

  10. 5 January 2018

      PDF updated.

  11. 21 December 2017

      PDF updated as questions changed on questionnaire.

  12. 1 April 2012

      First published.

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VOCH1

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Details

Use this form to report these medical conditions:

• angina
• heart attack (myocardial Infarction)
• acute coronary syndrome
• angioplasty/stent
• heart by-pass surgery (CABG)
• abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia)
• aortic stenosis
• Brugada syndrome
• pacemaker
• defibrillator
• peripheral arterial vascular disease
• aortic aneurysm
• heart failure
• heart attacks
• heart murmurs
• heart transplant TIA/stroke
• balloon angioplasty (leg)
• cardiac problems
• carotid artery stenosis
• catheter ablation
• chronic aortic dissection
• congenital heart disease
• coronary artery bypass
• dilated cardiomyopathy
• heart palpitations
• hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• ischaemic heart disease
• left bundle branch block
• Long QT syndrome
• Marfan’s syndrome
• tachycardia
• Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
• other related conditions

Check the list of health conditions if yours isn’t listed.

Use a different form to report these conditions if you only have a car or motorcycle licence.

Find out what happens after you tell DVLA.