West Yorkshire Foundation Programme Rankings 2026

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 score for the relevant Foundation programme group at that site.

For example, an Emergency Medicine placement at Bradford Royal Infirmary is scored using the "Emergency Medicine F1" or "Emergency 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 score for that site. These fallback scores are labelled site avg in the table. 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, labelled Leeds HQ.

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. Tiers are shown by row colour only (green, blue, white, pink, red).

Choosing an indicator: The "Ranked by" dropdown above the table controls which NTS quality indicator is used for scoring and ranking. Overall Satisfaction is the default, but 17 other indicators are available including Supportive Environment, Clinical Supervision, Workload, Rota Design, and others. Tier boundaries remain the same regardless of indicator, though absolute score levels vary between indicators. The column headers update to show which indicator is in use.

Quality symbols indicate how a placement scores relative to benchmarks:

▲▲ Excellent (≥85)    ▲ Good (75–84)    — Average (65–74)    ▼ Below average (<65)

Trend data shows scores from 2022–2025 where available, displayed in square brackets after each placement. A small arrow after the brackets indicates the direction of change between the two most recent years: ↑ improving (5+ points), ↓ declining (5+ points), or → broadly stable. NTS scores can be volatile, particularly where sample sizes are small, so trends should be interpreted with caution.

You can toggle the display of quality symbols, scores, and trend data using the checkboxes above the table.

Comparing indicators: The "Compare with" dropdown lets you display a second indicator's score alongside each placement without changing the ranking. For example, you might rank by Overall Satisfaction but compare with Workload to see how placements score on both. The comparison scores appear as purple tags next to each placement. To remove the comparison, set the dropdown back to "None".

Preferences let you adjust programme rankings based on your personal priorities for hospitals or specialties. There are two modes:

Prefer (slider): Adds or subtracts up to 10 points from a programme's adjusted score based on whether it contains a matching placement. Drag the slider towards "Like" to boost matching programmes, or towards "Avoid" to penalise them. Multiple preferences stack additively. You can use this to express how much more you care about location versus specialty: for example, setting a hospital preference to +8 and a specialty preference to +3 means location matters roughly twice as much to you as specialty. Experiment with different weightings to see how the rankings shift.

Must have / Must not have: Stronger than slider preferences. "Must have" adds a large bonus to matching programmes, ensuring they all rank above programmes without that placement. "Must not have" adds a large penalty, pushing matching programmes to the bottom. If you set multiple "Must have" preferences, programmes matching more of them will rank higher.

Each preference can be restricted to F1 placements only, F2 placements only, or applied to either year. The +/− column in the table shows the total preference effect on each programme.

Oriel tracking: The leftmost column in the table has a button you can click to mark programmes you have submitted to Oriel. Marked programmes are greyed out so you can see at a glance which you have already submitted. This is saved in your browser and will persist across sessions (but only on this device and browser).