A BRADFORD driving instructor trained in hypnotherapy is getting people in the "right mindset" so they can pass their driving test the first time and avoid the long wait of having to book another.

With learner drivers currently have to wait until 2022 to book a driving test at one of Bradford's two test centres, Javez Khan, a trained hypnotherapist who runs the company Hypno Driving, aims to get his students "100 per cent ready so they can achieve perfection".

Mr Khan, who has been a driving instructor since 2010, studied psychology and wanted to find out why people were failing their driving tests.

He said: "Why do professional people who are fine is all other aspects of life start sweating and get so nervous when they get behind the wheel of car? That's where the journey started."

Instead of stage hypnotherapy, Mr Khan uses neuro-linguistic programming, hypnotherapy and accelerated learning techniques.

He said: "When you're in the right mindset, anything is possible.

"It's about putting people at ease and making them feel more comfortable.

"We gain a rapport with people and they gain a rapport with themselves.

"This is a real issue for people who have failed their driving test a number of times.

"People can get very nervous about driving, so we have to work with them.

"People can experience different feelings when they get behind the wheel of a car.

"Drivers need to be confident and calm, so it's about finding out what makes them confident, calm and happy. Confidence leads to safer drivers.

"When we were in lockdown, there was no training and no driving tests taking place.

"People had to then find the time and spend more money to catch up on what they had learned before."

He also said that coming out of lockdown and getting a driving test booked in the near future has proven to be difficult.

Mr Khan, 52, who is from from Manningham, said: "There's still a little wait on driving test availability. Bradford is fully booked until 2022."

This creates more urgency for people to pass their driving test the first time.

"That is why we work with people to make sure they are 100 per cent ready, so they can achieve perfection."

And Mr Khan recently had one of pupils had one of his pupils achieve that very feat - a perfect test score without a single minor or major fault, a rare achievement.

"It was a clean sheet, an A** result," said Mr Khan. "Less than one per cent of learner drivers actually achieve this."