Type 2 Diabetes

For a group 2 licence holder, you don`t need to worry about the fact that the treatment is given by injection. What matters is what type of medication you take rather than how you administer it.

DVLA divide diabetes treatment into three types:

  • Medication which cause a risk of low sugar levels (hypoglycaemia)
  • Medication which isn’t likely to cause low blood sugar levels (including non-insulin injections)
  • Insulin injections

So your treatment comes into the lower risk category; it would be very unusual for anyone on non-insulin injection treatment for diabetes to have a problem with their licence unless there was some other medical problem.

For people taking tablets from the "medication which causes a risk of hypoglycaemia"category, the DVLA rules for self-monitoring are much stricter and in fact were tightened up a lot last year.
The most common medication in this category is gliclazide.

You didn’t say whether you are on anything else apart from the injections. If you are, you need to check which DVLA category those tablets comes into because even though DVLA won’t be too worried about the injections you are on, they will be more concerned if you are on one of the medicines from this category and they would require very frequent self testing of your blood sugar levels.