London 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.

London

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

  • North West London261
  • North East London221
  • South East London207
  • North Central London189
  • South West London185

109 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.

Linked applications are not matched to a group or programme.

Linked medical schools: Queen Mary University of London, University College London, Imperial College London, King's College London, St George's, University of London, Brunel Medical School.

Places it covers include Barking, Bethnal Green, Belvedere, Bexleyheath, Braintree, Bromley, Camberwell, Carshalton, Central and West Middlesex, Charing Cross, Chelsea, Croydon, Ealing, Eltham, Enfield, Epping, Epsom, Halstead, Hammersmith, Harrow, Harwich, Havering, Homerton, Hayes, Ilford, Kingston, Lewisham, Leytonstone, Marylebone, Merton, Newham, North Middlesex, Plaistow, Redbridge, Richmond, Romford, Sidcup, Sutton, Tooting, Uxbridge, Welling, Westminster, Whipps Cross, Whitechapel, Woolwich; UKFPO says the list is not exhaustive. Source: UKFPO, London Foundation School, read 14 September 2026.

Trusts, by the programmes that rotate through them

27 trusts and 67 sites.

  • Barts Health NHS Trust205
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust174
  • London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust153
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust138
  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust133
  • Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust133
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust132
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust127
  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust105
  • St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust96
  • North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust93
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust84
  • Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust82
  • Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust67
  • Whittington Health NHS Trust66
  • Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust63
  • Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust56
  • Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust56
  • The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust54
  • Croydon Health Services NHS Trust52
  • East London NHS Foundation Trust52
  • North East London NHS Foundation Trust47
  • The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust9
  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust5
  • Marie Curie3
  • South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust3
  • Trinity Hospice3
Rank London's 1,172 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.