North West 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, rents and pint prices.

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

North West of England

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

  • Manchester University NHS FT135
  • Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT117
  • Northern Care Alliance NHS FT117
  • Mersey and West Lancs Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust102
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust81
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS FT72
  • University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT51
  • Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS FT48
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS FT42
  • Bolton NHS FT42
  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS FT42
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS FT42
  • Stockport NHS FT36
  • Countess of Chester Hospital NHS FT30
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS FT27
  • East Cheshire NHS Trust24
  • Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS FT24
  • Noble's Isle of Man15

Local policy, pre-allocation and linked applications

Pre-allocated applicants are pre-allocated to a group, which here is a trust, only.

Linked applications are matched to a group only.

Linked medical schools: University of Lancashire, Lancaster University, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, Edge Hill University.

Places it covers include Barrow, Bebington, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Cheshire, Chorley, Congleton, Crewe, Isle of Man, Lancaster, Liverpool, Macclesfield, Manchester, Oldham, Ormskirk, Prescot, Preston, Rochdale, Runcorn, Salford, Southport, St Helens, Stockport, Upton, Warrington, Wigan, Wirral; UKFPO says the list is not exhaustive. Source: UKFPO, North West of England Foundation School, read 14 September 2026.

Trusts, by the programmes that rotate through them

27 trusts and 109 sites.

  • Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust132
  • Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust120
  • Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust120
  • Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust114
  • Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust101
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust81
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust72
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust69
  • St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust69
  • University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust51
  • Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust48
  • Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust45
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust42
  • Bolton NHS Foundation Trust42
  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust42
  • Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust42
  • Stockport NHS Foundation Trust36
  • Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust33
  • Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust30
  • Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust30
  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust27
  • Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust27
  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust25
  • East Cheshire NHS Trust24
  • Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust24
  • Manx Care21
  • The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust6
Rank North West of England's 1,095 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.