East of England foundation school

This map shows you every foundation school, shaded by UKFPO's first-choice ratio for the last three cycles or by average rent. Press a school for its programmes, groups, trusts, sites, specialties and rents. Oriel runs a group stage for every school in England, Scotland and Wales, where applicants preference groups before programmes; Northern Ireland has none.

Applicants who put the school first for every place, UKFP 2026: fewer more.

East of England

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Groups

There are 4 groups in this school. This is the grouping system, by the programmes each group holds.

  • East Anglia East252
  • Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire236
  • Essex217
  • East Anglia West186

Trusts, by the programmes that rotate through them

20 trusts and 25 sites.

  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust119
  • East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust73
  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust69
  • West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust67
  • East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust63
  • Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust63
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust61
  • Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust59
  • The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust58
  • Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust56
  • Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust54
  • Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust53
  • Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust51
  • North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust51
  • East London NHS Foundation Trust44
  • James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust44
  • Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust44
  • Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust42
  • West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust41
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust36
Rank East of England's 934 programmes

Ratios: UK Foundation Programme Office, UK Foundation Programme 2027, First preference ratios, read 10 September 2026; UKFPO's own page is the record. Group stage: UKFPO, UKFP 2026 application timeline; in England the groups are geographical, SFP, FPP and placeholder groups, NHS England, placeholder FAQs, March 2026; Northern Ireland, NIMDTA, foundation recruitment; read 10 September 2026. Rents: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics, 19 August 2026 edition, each region's latest month, read 10 September 2026; private rents for the ONS region a school sits in, which is this page's own mapping of schools to regions, not the school's own figure; contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Everything else on this page is counted from the programme lists the foundation schools published on Oriel for the 2026 cycle, 18 schools and 1,067sites in all. They are rough figures, not the schools' or UKFPO's, and lists change after publication. They are here to help you look, not to rank from: do your own checks against Oriel and the foundation school before you preference a programme. Doctor Devify Ltd accepts no responsibility for a decision made on these figures.