Who needs to complete the survey?

  1. Summary
  2. Who needs to complete the survey?
  3. How to complete the survey
  4. How to raise concerns in the survey
  1. What happens to your answers?
  2. Your privacy and confidentiality
  3. How to contact your deanery or NHSE local team
  4. Survey results

If you are working in a GMC approved training post in the UK on the date the survey opens, you should complete the survey.

This includes:

  • Foundation trainees
  • Foundation 2 (F2) trainees completing additional general practice training
  • Core trainees
  • Higher specialty training, including Specialist Registrar (SpR) and GP trainees
  • Fixed Term Specialty Training Appointment (FTSTA) trainees, Locum Appointment for Training (LAT) trainees
  • Military trainees
  • Trainees in Clinical Lecturer and Academic Clinical Fellowship posts approved by the GMC
  • Out of programme training (OOPT) on an approved programme in the UK
  • Post-CCT training towards a sub-specialty
  • Trainees working for non-NHS organisations, e.g. occupational medicine, palliative medicine and pharmaceutical medicine
  • Non-medical public health trainees.

If you're out of training, for any reason, on the census date (Tuesday 24 March 2026), you don't need to take the survey. If you haven't received a survey invite and you think you should have, please contact your deanery or NHSE local team.

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Related content

How to contact your deanery or NHSE local team Get support with the survey from your deanery or NHSE local team.
National training surveys reports View all our national training survey reports from previous years.
Concerns Read our guidance on raising a concern about an individual doctor.