Dental Foundation Training (DFT) schemes 2026

All 72 UK schemes — around 932 indicative places, plus Scotland's national DVT process. Every scheme page lists places, study days, the training programme director and allocation history.

🗺 Explore DFT schemes on the interactive map

East Midlands (4)

Derbyshire Scheme

14 places · 📚 Usually Friday · King's Mill Hospital

Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Scheme

15 places · 📚 Typically Thursday (not always) · Glenfield Hospital, Leicester; clinical skills days in Kettering

Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Scheme

15 places · 📚 Typically Friday (not always) · United Lincolnshire Hospital; skills days at King's Mill, Mansfield

Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire Scheme

15 places · 📚 Typically Friday (not always) · King's Mill Hospital

East of England (8)

Bedfordshire Scheme

14 places · 📚 Usually Friday · Bedford Hospital Learning & Education Centre; skills sessions at variable EoE locations

Cambridge 24 month Scheme

6 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Usually Friday · Deakin Centre, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Cambridgeshire Scheme

14 places · 📚 Usually Tuesday · Deakin Centre, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

Essex Scheme

14 places · 📚 Usually Tuesday · Braintree Community Hospital & Ipswich Postgraduate Centre

Hertfordshire Scheme

14 places · 📚 Usually Friday · Postgraduate Centre, Lister Hospital, Stevenage

Norfolk Scheme

14 places · 📚 Usually Friday · NANIME, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

Norwich 24 month Scheme

6 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Usually Friday · NANIME, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

Suffolk Scheme

14 places · 📚 Usually Friday · Ipswich Postgraduate Centre

Kent, Surrey and Sussex (4)

East Kent Scheme

14 places · 📚 Wednesday · various KSS sites (September induction: hands-on days across the region)

Longitudinal (Joint DFT & DCT) Scheme

10 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Wednesday · various KSS sites (travel expected for September induction)

North Kent Scheme

12 places · 📚 Wednesday · various KSS sites (September induction: hands-on days across the region)

Surrey and Sussex Scheme

13 places · 📚 Wednesday · various KSS sites (September induction: hands-on days across the region)

London (3)

Longitudinal (Joint DFT & DCT) Scheme

44 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Wednesday · across London sites (extensive compulsory hands-on days in September)

North London Scheme

50 places · 📚 Wednesday · Northwick Park Hospital & LonDEC (Waterloo)

South London Scheme

34 places · 📚 Wednesday · King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill

North East (6)

Central Scheme

15 places · 📚 Usually Tuesday · Bourne House, Durham

General Professional Training (GPT) Longitudinal Scheme

12 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Usually Wednesday · Bourne House, Durham

North Scheme

14 places · 📚 Usually Thursday · Bourne House, Durham

South Scheme

15 places · 📚 Usually Wednesday · Bourne House, Durham

West 24 months Scheme

3 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Usually Tuesday · Bourne House, Durham

West Scheme

12 places · 📚 Usually Tuesday · Bourne House, Durham

North West (6)

2 Year Joint DFT & DCT Scheme

18 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Normally Friday · Altrincham Health & Wellbeing Centre

Central Scheme

21 places · 📚 Normally Friday · Altrincham Health & Wellbeing Centre

Cheshire and Merseyside Scheme

20 places · 📚 Normally Friday · Altrincham Health & Wellbeing Centre

Greater Manchester North Scheme

21 places · 📚 Normally Friday · Altrincham Health & Wellbeing Centre

Greater Manchester South Scheme

21 places · 📚 Normally Thursday · Altrincham Health & Wellbeing Centre

Lancashire and South Cumbria Scheme

20 places · 📚 Normally Friday · Altrincham Health & Wellbeing Centre

Northern Ireland (1)

Northern Ireland Scheme (NIMDTA)

35 places · 📚 Site TBC — Antrim / Belfast / Newtownabbey

Scotland (1)

Dental Vocational Training — DVT (NES Scotland)

Places set annually

South West (11)

Bath Longitudinal 24 month Scheme

1 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Bath

Bath and West Scheme

7 places · 📚 Various venues — check scheme timetable

Bristol and South Cotswold Scheme

9 places · 📚 Thursday · Bristol Dental School

Devon and Coastal Scheme

8 places · 📚 Exeter, with occasional sessions online and in Plymouth, Taunton & Bristol

Dorset and Wiltshire Scheme

6 places · 📚 Salisbury & Dorchester

Plymouth 2 year Joint DFT & DCT Scheme

3 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Plymouth, Exeter & virtual

Plymouth Longitudinal 24 month Scheme

2 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Thursdays · Exeter and online

Somerset Scheme

9 places · 📚 The Academy, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

Taunton Longitudinal 24 months Scheme

1 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 The Academy at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

Torbay 2 year Joint DFT & DCT Scheme

3 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Exeter, Taunton, Plymouth & virtual

West Devon and Cornwall Scheme

8 places · 📚 Truro & Plymouth

Thames Valley and Wessex (8)

Berkshire Scheme

16 places · 📚 Thursday · John Lister PG Centre, Wexham Park Hospital (+ joint TVW events)

Buckinghamshire Scheme

13 places · 📚 Thursday · PG Centre, Milton Keynes University Hospital (+ joint TVW events)

Hampshire Scheme

12 places · 📚 Thursday · University of Portsmouth Dental Academy (+ joint TVW events)

Hampshire and Emsworth 24 month Scheme

2 places · joint DFT+DCT run-through · 📚 Thursdays · Yr 1: QA Hospital Portsmouth + skills at Portsmouth Dental Academy; Yr 2 (DCT): Explorer House, Southampton