Flora is reviewed after 3 months. Flora tells you that she is seeing her GP again later this week and as she is now feeling fine she is going to ask her GP if she can return to driving.
You discuss her residual problems and her continuing lack of awareness into her problems. You discuss the legal position in relation to DVLA and clinically apparent visual inattention. Flora is reminded that it is still very early in her stroke recovery and allowing further time for ongoing recovery: physical, cognitive and perceptual, would be beneficial. With her level of impairment a 1 year post stroke recovery period is likely to be more realistic for considering her medical fitness for a return to driving, with a referral to a specialist driving assessment service being recommended.
Page last reviewed: 16 Apr 2021
