Northern 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

Northern

568 programmes published on Oriel for 2026-2028 entry (472 FP, 55 FPP, 21 SFP, 20 placeholders), across 10 trusts and 128 sites.

Groups

Northern's own site opened its group preferencing on 12 March 2026 (Northern Foundation School, recruitment, read 10 September 2026).

This school's groups are not listed here; its 568 programmes are shown as one list. The school's own site names its groups.

Trusts, by the programmes that rotate through them

  • Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust104
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust93
  • Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust92
  • County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust78
  • Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust76
  • Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust69
  • South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust64
  • North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust56
  • North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust47
  • Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust45
Rank Northern's 568 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.