What the scheme says
The scheme says it recruits around 250 new trainees each year. Application totals and stage-by-stage conversion rates are not published.
The scheme welcomes a further application after an unsuccessful one; check the current eligibility rules before applying again.
Where candidates are filtered
NHS GMTS uses NHS England's assessment partner Amberjack under a contract awarded in July 2024. GMTS is not a Sova assessment, and the apply page does not say it is scored against the NHS Constitution values.
Why a single percentage misleads
The scheme recruits into several specialisms, each with its own intake size and its own applicant pool, so a scheme-wide figure hides the number that actually applies to you. Competition for one specialism can look nothing like competition for another in the same year.
Figures also move between cycles with intake size and the state of the graduate market, and the point at which candidates drop out differs by stage. A rate quoted without a year, a specialism and a stage is not a rate you can plan with.
For that reason we publish only figures we can attribute to the scheme's own published material, with the source and the date we checked it. Where we have no source, we leave the number out rather than repeat one from a forum.
What to do with the odds
Use the published stage information to plan your preparation, rather than relying on an unpublished acceptance rate.
Choose your specialism on genuine fit and prepare for the published Future Potential Assessment, Alignment Assessment and virtual assessment centre.
Apply early in the window so a technical problem or a busy week does not cost you the cycle, and check whether your specialism has any additional eligibility requirements before you start.
Put it into practice
The fastest way to internalise the format is practice in the same question formats.
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