KSS foundation school

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

First-choice ratio, UKFP
fewer first choices per placemore

KSS

715 programmes published on Oriel for 2026-2028 entry (640 FP, 30 FPP, 27 SFP, 18 placeholders), across 15 trusts and 25 sites.

Groups

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

  • KSS Central244
  • KSS West223
  • KSS East203

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

Trusts, by the programmes that rotate through them

  • University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust168
  • Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust118
  • Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust95
  • East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust84
  • Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust83
  • Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust73
  • Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust67
  • East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust58
  • Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust57
  • Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust54
  • Medway NHS Foundation Trust54
  • Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust44
  • Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust36
  • Hospice12
  • Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3
Rank KSS's 715 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. 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.