London 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

London

1,221 programmes published on Oriel for 2026-2028 entry (1066 FP, 109 SFP, 46 placeholders), across 27 trusts and 69 sites.

Groups

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 London East207
  • North Central London192
  • South London West185

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

Trusts, by the programmes that rotate through them

  • Barts Health NHS Trust205
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust174
  • London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust153
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust138
  • Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust135
  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust133
  • Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust133
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust127
  • King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust105
  • North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust96
  • St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust96
  • 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 1,221 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.