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 2025 - F2 2026 (all posts are subject to change)
Groups
To make ranking the programmes a less time consuming process, our programmes are split into two 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 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. There are 367 programmes of linked F1 and F2 posts within the Severn Foundation School, split between the North (199) and South (168) groups. You are required to rank ALL PROGRAMMES in your Group in order of preference by 12:00 midday (BST) on TBC. If you have not ranked your preferences by this time, 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 General Practice placements 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 the score by which 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 2025 Applicant Handbook
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17 September 2024
25th September - 09 October 2024 (12:00 Midday BST)
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Registration opens on the Oriel application system for applicants.
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9 October 2024 (12:00pm midday BST)
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The national application window for FP and FPP closes. Late applications will not be accepted. |
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05 December 2024
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Pre-allocation application outcomes released to applicants |
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20 January 2025
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Deadline for applicants to preference Foundation Priority Programmes (FPP) OR to withdraw FPP application on Oriel. |
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03 February 2025 |
Round 4 – FPP offers released (applicants have 48 hours to accept/reject offer).
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20 March 2025 20 – 31 March 2025
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Group match results released in Oriel Programme preferencing window opens in Oriel. Applicants are required to preference the programmes in their matched group in order of choice. |
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10 April 2025
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Programme match released to applicants in Oriel. Applicant information released to employers via foundation schools and the Oriel system from 10 April onwards.
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01 May 2025
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Applicants must begin provisional GMC registration application process (if not already started). Further group/programme matches will take place via local Foundation Schools from May onwards. |
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11 June 2025 (12:00pm midday BST)
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Reference submission window in Oriel closes. |
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28 July 2025
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Commencement of the 2025 UK Foundation Programme. Newly appointed F1 doctors are required to attend a period of pre-employment shadowing of the F1 doctor you will be taking over from before the start of the programme. Employers will provide details of local arrangements. |
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06 Aug 2025
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F1 begins. |