Trust Details and Placement Descriptions
Successful Applicants to Severn Foundation School
Once successful applicants are matched to the school the next stage in the process is to identify your group and programme preferences via the online application system Oriel.
All Severn Foundation Programmes detailed on Oriel (the national application system) are available as a single Programme List in pdf format below. Please note this is an indicative list and programmes remain subject to change. It also includes our FPP and SFP programmes.
Post list F1 2026 - F2 2027 (all posts are subject to change)
Groups
To make ranking the programmes a less time consuming process, our programmes are split into groups.
The "Severn - North" group contains 203 programmes, with rotations in Gloucestershire and Swindon as well as a proportion of rotations in Bath, Bristol and Weston-super-Mare.
The "Severn - South" group contains 192 programmes, with rotations in Taunton and Yeovil as well as a proportion of rotations in Bath, Bristol and Weston-super-Mare.
The SFP group information can be found here.
The FPP group information can be found here
The group preferencing window will open after the allocation to school has been announced. Applicants will be asked to rank the two groups in order of preference. Applicants will be allocated to group based on their Preference Informed Allocation rank.
Programmes
Applicants will be allocated to programme based on their Preference Informed Allocation rank. The programmes are split between the North (199) and South (168) groups. You are required to rank ALL PROGRAMMES in your Group in order of preference. If you have not ranked your preferences within the advertised preferencing window, you will be randomly allocated to a programme.
Please note that allocation to foundation school and programme is subject to the following:
- Successful completion of your medical undergraduate degree (where applicable)
- Satisfactory pre-employment checks
- Satisfactory references
- Successful completion of national clinical assessment (where applicable)
Useful information
Information on the acute Trusts, including Trust Profiles and Foundation Doctor Testimonials, is available here.
Information on Psychiatry placements is available here.
Information on Specialised Foundation Programmes in the Severn Foundation School is available here.
The following has been designed to provide applicants with useful information about the Foundation School:
General Information about how Training is organised in Severn Foundation School
Queries regarding Terms and Conditions (including accommodation and pay bandings) should be directed to individual Trusts.
For the General FP application process, Severn will not be using interviews to allocate applicants to programme. Successful applicants will be asked to rank programmes online, then allocated using PIA in the same way they were allocated to Foundation School.
Please also see our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Pre-allocation
The Severn Foundation School will honour matching to programme level for the following pre-allocated applicants:
1 All pre-allocation applicants who are the parent or legal guardian of children under the age of 18. Applicants will be matched to a programme in the trust/ city or town nearest their home address.
2 All pre-allocation applicants who declare any health reasons that are confirmed by an occupational health recommendation report clearly stating that they need to be in the trust/ city or town nearest their home address.
3 The school will also consider any exceptional circumstances on the production of suitable supporting evidence e.g. Olympians who need to be in a particular location near to their training camp base. Needing to live near a partner or family is NOT an exceptional circumstance.
All other Pre-allocation applicants will be matched to a 'North' or 'South' group only and will be allocated to their programme using the UKFPO's Preferenced Informed Allocation (PIA) algorithm.
Pre-allocation to programmes does not include any SFP programmes. Pre-allocated applicants that rank the SFP group as their first preference could be matched to a Placeholder group.
Linked Applicants
For linked applicants, the link will be maintained only up to the Group-Matching stage assuming applicants rank the Groups in exactly the same order.
Contact Us
If, having read the information available, you have further queries or questions please email the Severn Foundation School.
Timetable
All application guidance, including eligibility and special circumstances is available on the UK Foundation Programme website. For a more detailed timeline, please refer to the UKFPO Applicant Guide
| 16-Sep-25 | Registration opens on the Oriel application system for applicants. |
| 24-Sep-25 | FP, FPP and Pre-allocation programme application window opens. |
| 08-Oct-25 | The national application window for FP, FPP and pre-allocation closes at 12:00 midday BST. Late applications will not be accepted. |
| January TBC | Pre-allocation application outcomes released to applicants |