Increasing awareness of medical fitness to drive among healthcare professionals and the public

Initiative details

Increasing awareness of medical fitness to drive among healthcare professionals and the public
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Organisation details

3
Ireland
Dublin

Contact name

Prof Desmond O'Neill

Telephone number

+353868260414

Website

Project activities

If you work together with external partners, list the most important partners and briefly describe their role.

Irish Road Safety Authority and the National Driving Licence Service - not only funding this work pro-actively but also working in tandem on the research projects
CIECA, the International Consortium on Driver Testing - supporting the review on European Union Directives on medical fitness to drive

Evaluation

Please briefly explain why your initiative is a good example of improving road safety.

This combined programme is unique, not only in being based in a postgraduate medical college and involving over 30 medical and other healthcare disciplines in our working group, but also in aiming at improving awareness among healthcare professionals AND the general public