Northern Ireland 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.

Northern Ireland

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Groups

Northern Ireland runs no group stage: after allocation to the school, applicants preference its programmes directly (NIMDTA, foundation recruitment, read 10 September 2026).

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

  • Belfast125
  • Western61
  • Northern59
  • South Eastern59
  • Southern59

Trusts, by the programmes that rotate through them

5 trusts and 26 sites.

  • Belfast Health and Social Care Trust249
  • Northern Health and Social Care Trust116
  • South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust116
  • Western Health and Social Care Trust114
  • Southern Health and Social Care Trust113
Rank Northern Ireland's 387 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.