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

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