Foundation Doctor's 2024 Guide to West Yorkshire
Updated for 2024 Applicants
Yorkshire and Humber Foundation School is part of Health Education England Yorkshire and Humber, and is formed of 3 regions: North Yorkshire and East Coast, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. Successful applicants to Yorkshire and Humber will need to select one of these 3 regions during the Group Preferencing Stage on Oriel, before they begin ranking their hospitals and rotations in the Programme Preferencing stages.
Foundation Doctor's Guide to West Yorkshire
The West Yorkshire region of Yorkshire and Humber Foundation School is made up of hospitals in and around Leeds, Bradford & Huddersfield, with Leeds being the largest city. St James’s University Hospital in Leeds is the largest of the hospitals in the region, a teaching hospital with a Cystic Fibrosis unit and a liver transplant unit. Other tertiary hospitals in the region are Leeds General Infirmary & Bradford Royal Infirmary. Leeds itself is served by four universities and is the cultural, financial and commercial heart of the area, leading to a melting pot of cultures with a great going-out scene.
Yorkshire & Humber, one of the larger Foundation Schools, has 3 regions, North Yorkshire & East Coast, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. Once accepted into the Yorkshire & Humber Foundation School, you have to then rank your regions in order of preference. Then you’re allocated your region (e.g. West Yorkshire) for the 2 years for which you have to decide on your rotations.
Foundation School Statistics
2023 F1 Places: 700
2023 F1 Applicants: 558
2023 Competition Ratio: 0.80
2022 F1 Places: 564
2022 F1 Applicants: 466
2022 Competition Ratio: 0.83
2021 F1 Places: 550
2021 F1 Applicants: 431
2021 Competition Ratio: 0.78
Below is an interactive bar chart displaying the competition ratios, lowest entry scores, and the number of posts from 2018 to 2022.
Please note that the 2022 data for lowest entry score is not yet available, we will update this graph when it is.
How Does Yorkshire & Humber Compare To Other Foundation Schools?
Check out our article "What are the most competitive foundations schools?" for a full breakdown.
Hospitals, Rotation Scores, CQC Ratings
In the chart below you'll find a list of hospitals attached to the East Anglia Foundation School, and an average of their Rotation Scores from Messly’s Training Navigator. Each rotation is given a score out of 100, which is based on a weighted average of ratings given by Foundation Trainees in the 2023 GMC NTS. The national average Rotation Score is 57 for reference.
Colours correspond to the latest CQC rating of that hospital.
Disclaimer: Please note that hospitals are unscored when there are insufficient responses by Foundation Trainees to the GMC’s NTS survey.
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