West Yorkshire Foundation Programme Rankings 2026

An interactive tool for Foundation Year applicants ranking West Yorkshire programmes for August 2026

Please read before using this tool

This is an experimental tool created using AI (Claude, by Anthropic). It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the GMC, Health Education England, the UK Foundation Programme Office, or any NHS trust.

Programme quality scores are derived from the GMC National Training Survey (NTS) 2025 Overall Satisfaction data, matched to the placement information published for West Yorkshire Foundation Programme posts. Many of the underlying NTS scores are based on small numbers of survey responses and may not be reliable indicators of placement quality. Scores can fluctuate significantly from year to year.

This tool may contain errors. The matching of specialties to NTS programme groups, the mapping of placement sites to NTS sites, and the scoring methodology all involve assumptions that could introduce inaccuracies. You should double-check any data that matters to you against the original GMC NTS results before finalising your ranking and submitting it to Oriel.

This tool is provided to help you explore the data. It is not a recommendation engine and should not be your sole basis for ranking decisions.

How the scores are calculated

Each West Yorkshire programme has six placements (three in F1, three in F2). Each placement has a specialty and a hospital site. To score a placement, the tool looks up the 2025 GMC National Training Survey Overall Satisfaction score for the relevant Foundation programme group at that site.

For example, a Geriatric Medicine placement at Bradford Royal Infirmary is scored using the "Medicine F1" or "Medicine F2" programme group score at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Where a programme group score is not available for a specific site (often because too few trainees responded to the survey), the tool falls back to the all-programme-group Overall Satisfaction score for that site. For placements listed under the Leeds Teaching Hospitals HQ code, the tool averages the scores for Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital.

Mental health, GP, and community placements cannot be scored using hospital NTS data and are marked as "unscored". They are excluded from the programme average.

The programme score is the mean of its scored placements. Tier boundaries: T1 ≥74, T2 71-73.9, T3 68-70.9, T4 64-67.9, T5 <64.

Trend data: Where available, scores from 2022-2025 are shown alongside the current score. NTS scores can be volatile from year to year, particularly where sample sizes are small, so trends should be interpreted with caution.

Quality symbols: ▲▲ Excellent (≥85), ▲ Good (75-84), — Average (65-74), ▼ Below average (<65).

Preferences: When you add a hospital or specialty preference, that value is added to the overall programme score for every programme containing a matching placement. Multiple preferences stack additively. Use these to explore how your personal priorities would shift the rankings.

Tiers: T1 ≥74 T2 71-73.9 T3 68-70.9 T4 64-67.9 T5 <64

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