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Applications close at 1:00 pm UK time on 18 November 2026. Interviews for NHS places run from 22 March to 28 May 2027.
Published and typical dates
Published dates come from the Clearing House. Typical dates show how the year usually runs, and are not fixed yet. Check the Clearing House before you rely on a date.
Next deadline
Applications close
18 November 2026, 1:00 pm
Then
Suitability statements due
4 December 2026
Then
Short-listing decisions confirmed
By 2 April 2027
Then
Offers and pay
By 4 June 2027
Then
Respond to offers
11 June 2027, 2:00 pm
Sources, all from the Clearing House: dates, fees, submission and offers, checked .
Autumn 2026Typical, not published
Choosing up to four courses
Applications opened in September 2026.
21 October 2026Published date
Last day for the £20 Clearing House fee
The Clearing House fee is £20 if you submit and pay by this date and £35 after, for one course or four.
18 November 2026, 1:00 pmPublished date
Applications close
That is UK time. Late applications are not accepted.
Your courses
- Coventry and Warwick: applies directly to Coventry University this cycle, not through the Clearing House
November 2026 to 29 January 2027Published date
Applications released to courses
Upload any course documents before your application is released, if you can.
December 2026 to mid-March 2027Published date
Short-listing tests, if your courses use one
Courses that set a test hold it in these months.
Your courses
- Edinburgh: Usually sent in late January with a two-week deadline, according to the course's own pageThe Clearing House short-listing list gives February or March
- Exeter: February or March 2027
- Lancaster: 8 to 22 February 2027The Clearing House short-listing list gives 11 to 25 FebruaryThe two sources differ, and we do not know which is right. Ask the course.Shared with Manchester: apply to both and you sit it once
- Manchester: February or March 2027 on the Clearing House listShared with Lancaster: apply to both and you sit it once
- Salomons: February or March 2027
- Sheffield: February or March 2027
- Trent: Saturday 20 February 2027, at the University of Lincoln
- UEL: February or March 2027
- Bangor: names no test
- Bath: names no test
- Birmingham: considering a test
- Cardiff: names no test
- Coventry and Warwick: not established
- Essex: names no test
- Glasgow: considering a test
- Hertfordshire: considering a test
- King's College London: no test
- Leeds: no test
- Leicester: names no test
- Liverpool: names no test
- Newcastle: no test
- Oxford: names no test
- Plymouth: no test
- Royal Holloway: names no test
- Southampton: names no test
- Staffordshire: names no test
- Surrey: no test
- Teesside: names no test
- UCL: no test
- UEA: names no test
Choose your courses to see their dates here.
4 December 2026Published date
Suitability statements due
Your application’s Overview page shows whether both have arrived.
22 March to 28 May 2027Published date
Interviews
Interviews for NHS places run in these weeks.
Your courses
- Lancaster: “First round interviews (AM or PM): Monday 22nd March 2027, Tuesday 23rd March 2027, Wednesday 24th March 2027. Second round interviews (~90 minutes): Monday 5th April 2027, Tuesday 6th April 2027, Wednesday 7th April 2027, Thursday 8th April 2027, Friday 9th April 2027.”
- Sheffield: “Monday 22 to Thursday 25 March”
- Bangor: “Monday 5 to Friday 9 April”
- Teesside: “Monday 5 to Friday 9 April and Monday 12 to Friday 16 April”
- Cardiff: “Monday 12 April and Monday 19 to Friday 23 April”
- Newcastle: “Monday 12 to Friday 16 April”
- Surrey: “Monday 12 to Friday 16 April”
- UEA: “Monday 12 to Friday 16 April”
- Essex: “Monday 19 to Wednesday 21 April”
- Leicester: “We will then invite 96 candidates to an Assessment Centre during Monday 19 April to Wednesday 28 April 2027 (weekdays only).”
- Manchester: “Monday 19 to Friday 23 April”
- Oxford: “Thursday 22 to Friday 23 April and Monday 26 to Friday 30 April”
- UCL: “Thursday 22 to Friday 23 April and Monday 26 to Friday 30 April”
- Liverpool: “Monday 26 to Friday 30 April”
- Trent: “Interviews usually take place in May and will be held in person.”“Monday 26 to Friday 30 April”The two sources differ, and we do not know which is right. Ask the course.
- Salomons: “Interviews will be held from Tuesday 27th April to Friday 30th April 2027.”
- Birmingham: “Tuesday 4 to Friday 7 May and Monday 10 to Friday 14 May”
- Hertfordshire: “Selection will be taking place between 4th and 7th May 2027.”
- Edinburgh: “Monday 10 to Friday 14 May”
- Exeter: “Monday 10 to Wednesday 12 May”
- Staffordshire: “In-person interviews will take place week beginning 10th May 2027”
- UEL: “Monday 10 to Friday 14 May”
- Bath: “Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 May”
- Leeds: “Tuesday 11 to Friday 14 May”
- Glasgow: “Monday 17 to Friday 21 May”
- King's College London: “one face-to-face interview between 18th-20th May 2027”
- Plymouth: “Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 May”
- Royal Holloway: “Monday 24 to Friday 28 May”
- Southampton: “Monday 24 to Friday 28 May”
- Coventry and Warwick: not published
Choose your courses to see their dates here.
By 2 April 2027Published date
Short-listing decisions confirmed
Courses tell you by this date whether you are short-listed for an NHS place.
By 4 June 2027Published date
Offers and pay
Courses send interview results for NHS places by this date.
11 June 2027, 2:00 pmPublished date
Respond to offers
Accept or decline any offer made on or before 4 June. Accepting one is final and cancels every other application, interview and reserve place you hold.
Test and interview dates for each course
Eight of the 30 courses set a test before interview. Interview days for NHS places come from the Clearing House list of 2027 interview dates for NHS places or the course’s own page. Words in quotation marks are the page’s own. Interview dates checked , test dates .
- Bangor University
- Interview
- “Monday 5 to Friday 9 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- Cardiff University
- Interview
- “Monday 12 April and Monday 19 to Friday 23 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- Coventry and Warwick
- Applying
- Applies directly to Coventry University this cycle, not through the Clearing House · Clearing House course page and course’s own page, checked
- Interview
- Not published · Clearing House course page
- King's College London
- Interview
- “one face-to-face interview between 18th-20th May 2027” · Clearing House course page
- Lancaster University
- Test
- 8 to 22 February 2027. The window opens at 10:00 am on the first day and closes at 11:59 pm on the last, on Lancaster's own page; the Clearing House short-listing list, updated 7 September 2026, gives 11 to 25 February · course’s own page, checked ; Clearing House short-listing listThe two sources differ, and we do not know which is right. Ask the course.Shared with Manchester: apply to both and you sit it once · Manchester’s course page, checked
- Interview
- “First round interviews (AM or PM): Monday 22nd March 2027, Tuesday 23rd March 2027, Wednesday 24th March 2027. Second round interviews (~90 minutes): Monday 5th April 2027, Tuesday 6th April 2027, Wednesday 7th April 2027, Thursday 8th April 2027, Friday 9th April 2027.” · course’s own page
- Newcastle University
- Interview
- “Monday 12 to Friday 16 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- Oxford
- Interview
- “Thursday 22 to Friday 23 April and Monday 26 to Friday 30 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- Royal Holloway
- Interview
- “Monday 24 to Friday 28 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- Salomons
- Test
- February or March 2027. The course says successful applicants will be emailed by the end of February 2027 with an invitation and further information · Clearing House course page, checked ; Clearing House short-listing list
- Interview
- “Interviews will be held from Tuesday 27th April to Friday 30th April 2027.” · Clearing House course page
- Trent
- Test
- Saturday 20 February 2027, at the University of Lincoln · Clearing House course page, checked ; Clearing House short-listing list
- Interview
- “Interviews usually take place in May and will be held in person.” · Clearing House course page“Monday 26 to Friday 30 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS placesThe two sources differ, and we do not know which is right. Ask the course.
- University College London
- Interview
- “Thursday 22 to Friday 23 April and Monday 26 to Friday 30 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Bath
- Interview
- “Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Birmingham
- Interview
- “Tuesday 4 to Friday 7 May and Monday 10 to Friday 14 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of East Anglia
- Interview
- “Monday 12 to Friday 16 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of East London
- Test
- February or March 2027 · Clearing House course page, checked ; Clearing House short-listing list
- Interview
- “Monday 10 to Friday 14 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Edinburgh
- Test
- Usually sent in late January with a two-week deadline, according to the course's own page. The Clearing House short-listing list gives February or March · Edinburgh’s programme page and Clearing House short-listing list, checked
- Interview
- “Monday 10 to Friday 14 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Essex
- Interview
- “Monday 19 to Wednesday 21 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Exeter
- Test
- February or March 2027. That is the Clearing House short-listing list, updated 7 September 2026, for “questionnaires which are not timed”; the course's own page gives no date for this cycle · Clearing House course page, course’s own page and Clearing House short-listing list
- Interview
- “Monday 10 to Wednesday 12 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Glasgow
- Interview
- “Monday 17 to Friday 21 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Hertfordshire
- Interview
- “Selection will be taking place between 4th and 7th May 2027.” · Clearing House course page
- University of Leeds
- Interview
- “Our interviews will take place in person in Leeds in May 2027.” · Clearing House course page“Tuesday 11 to Friday 14 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Leicester
- Interview
- “We will then invite 96 candidates to an Assessment Centre during Monday 19 April to Wednesday 28 April 2027 (weekdays only).” · Clearing House course page
- University of Liverpool
- Interview
- “Monday 26 to Friday 30 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Manchester
- Test
- February or March 2027 on the Clearing House list; Lancaster's own page gives 8 to 22 February 2027 for its own applicants. Manchester's own page gives no date, and does not say whether its applicants sit in Lancaster's window · Clearing House short-listing list, Lancaster’s short-listing page and Manchester’s course page, checked Shared with Lancaster: apply to both and you sit it once
- Interview
- “Monday 19 to Friday 23 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Plymouth
- Interview
- “Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Sheffield
- Test
- February or March 2027 · Clearing House course page, checked ; Clearing House short-listing list
- Interview
- “Monday 22 to Thursday 25 March” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Southampton
- Interview
- “Monday 24 to Friday 28 May” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Staffordshire
- Interview
- “In-person interviews will take place week beginning 10th May 2027” · Clearing House course page
- University of Surrey
- Interview
- “Monday 12 to Friday 16 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places
- University of Teesside
- Interview
- “Interviews are completed in March/April of each year” · Clearing House course page“Monday 5 to Friday 9 April and Monday 12 to Friday 16 April” · Clearing House 2027 list, NHS places