KSS 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, rents and pint prices.

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

KSS

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Groups

Oriel runs a group stage for every school in England, Scotland and Wales, where applicants preference groups before programmes; Northern Ireland has none. How the whole process runs.

There are 3 groups in this school. This is the grouping system, by the programmes each group holds.

  • KSS Central234
  • KSS West223
  • KSS East215

27 programmes sit outside the groups (SFP posts and programmes with no group).

Local policy, pre-allocation and linked applications

Pre-allocated applicants are pre-allocated to a group only.

Links hold only up to the group match, and only if both applicants preference their groups in exactly the same order and there are enough places.

Linked medical schools: Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Kent and Medway Medical School.

Places it covers include Ashford, Barnes Cray, Brighton, Canterbury, Chichester, Chertsey, Dartford, Erith, Eastbourne, Frimley, Gillingham, Guildford, Haywards Heath, Maidstone, Margate, Pembury, Redhill, St Leonards-on-Sea, Worthing; UKFPO says the list is not exhaustive. Source: UKFPO, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Foundation School, read 14 September 2026.

Trusts, by the programmes that rotate through them

15 trusts and 25 sites.

  • University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust168
  • Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust129
  • Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust101
  • East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust84
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust83
  • Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust75
  • Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust67
  • East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust60
  • Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust57
  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust54
  • Medway NHS Foundation Trust54
  • Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust42
  • Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust36
  • Hospice12
  • Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3
Rank KSS's 699 programmes

Programmes, groups, trusts, sites and specialties are counted from each foundation school's latest published list, 10,655 programmes in all: the 2026 cycle lists on Oriel, except East of England, KSS, LNR, London, Northern Ireland, Oxford (Thames Valley), Severn, Trent, Wales, Wessex, West Midlands Central, West Midlands North, West Midlands South and Yorkshire and Humber, counted from the 2027 to 2029 lists those schools have published; the ratios are UKFPO's, the rents the ONS's for the region a school sits in, the pint prices Finder's, each named beside its figure, and every source is listed below. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These are rough figures, not the schools' or UKFPO's, and lists change after publication: 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.

Sources

  • First-choice ratios: UKFPO, UK Foundation Programme 2027, First preference ratios (2024 to 2026 cycles), read 10 September 2026. Primary allocation, with the figure after the pre-allocation scheme beside it.
  • The group stage: UKFPO's UKFP 2026 application timeline, NHS England's placeholder FAQs of March 2026 for the kinds of group in England, and NIMDTA's foundation recruitment page for Northern Ireland, all read 10 September 2026.
  • Rents: ONS Price Index of Private Rents, 19 August 2026 edition, each region's latest month (Northern Ireland runs two months behind), for the ONS region a school sits in. The placing of schools in regions is ours, not the school's own figure.
  • Pint prices: Finder UK's 2026 list, its average of user-reported prices on Numbeo and Expatistan as of April 2026. It is not a survey or a statistic, and each city is placed in a school by us.
  • Local policies on pre-allocation and linked applications, linked medical schools and the places each school covers: UKFPO's page for that school, read 14 September 2026, the policies in our words.