Foundation Doctor's 2023 Guide to North Yorkshire and East Coast

Updated for 2023 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.

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North Yorkshire and East Coast

North Yorkshire & East Coast Foundation School covers the inland towns of York & Scunthorpe and the sea-side towns of Scarborough, Hull & Grimsby. Hull Royal Infirmary is the main tertiary hospital in the region specialising in cardiothoracics and neurosurgery, alongside York Hospital which also specialises in cardiothoracic surgery. Scunthorpe is a commutable distance from Sheffield & Leeds, and York is commutable from Leeds. Hull has recently been the UK City of Culture, with a large investment into culture and arts, including the Freedom Festival.

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. North Yorkshire and East Coast) for the 2 years for which you have to decide on your rotations

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Join The Facebook Group

You can Join the North Yorkshire & East Coast Foundation School page here, and the page for all Foundation Trainee's in Yorkshire & Humber here. Plus the group for all UKFP 2023 trainee's here

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Foundation School Statistics

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 over the past 5 years.
Please note that the 2022 data for lowest entry score is not yet available, we will update this graph when it is.

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How Does Yorkshire & Humber Compare To Other Foundation Schools?

Check out our article "What are the most competitive foundations schools?" for a full breakdown.

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Hospitals, Rotation Scores, CQC Ratings

In the chart below you'll find a list of hospitals attached to the North Yorkshire and East Coast 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 2022 GMC NTS. The national average Rotation Score is 62 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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Need Help Ranking Your Foundation Programmes?

Rank your Foundation Programme rotations with confidence with Messly’s Training Navigator. See how rotations are rated by last year’s foundation trainees to make smarter decisions about where you’ll spend your Foundation Training.

You can use it to answer questions like:‍

👉  Which are the best-rated and worst-rated rotations in my Foundation School?
👉  How do the rotations compare for Workload, Learning and Satisfaction?
👉  Which is the best hospital for my favourite specialties?
👉  Within a hospital, which rotations are best-rated?

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