Specialty training
Applications for UK Specialty Training
Every application window with the date it closes, and what each UK specialty application actually scores, read from the recruitment office's own published guidance.
Application windows.
What scores for Ophthalmology ST1.
Ophthalmology: points not yet verified. We will show what it scores once we have read this year's guidance.
What is scored
NHSE South West: Ophthalmology ST1 Applicant Guide 2027 · NOT re-verified. The NHSE South West evidence-folder and applicant-guide pages for the 2026 round now return 404, and 2027 criteria are unpublished. Figures here are from the 2 Sep 2026 pass against the retired pages. Third-party guides suggest a 2026 change we have not captured: second authors may score for orals only, with posters scoring nothing.
Round 1 closes 19 November 2026.