The process for 2025 recruitment will follow the same process for 2024. We can confirm that that there will not be an in-person interview process that requires you to attend a physical interview centre. Interviews will be all held online.

Below is the overall timetable for the national recruitment round.

Dates subject to change

Whist we do not expect the timelines published to change, please be aware that this can never be guaranteed. As such, you are advised to check this page periodically.

Changes to any of the stages of the timeline will be reflected immediately on this page, as well as noted in a news item where considered necessary.

  

Timeline for 2025 stroke medicine recruitment

  

Provisional vacancies published

(by) Wednesday 13 November 2024

Applications

open – Thursday 14 November 2024 (10am, UK time)
close - Thursday 5 December 2024 (4pm, UK time)

Long/shortlisting

(completed by) Friday 20 December 2024

Invitation to interview

(sent by) Friday 20 December 2024

Interviews held

Wednesday 22 January 2025

Programme preferences open (approximate)

open - Monday 27 January 2025
close - Monday 3 February 2025

Offers made

the first set of offers are anticipated to be made by Tuesday 4 February 2025 (5pm UK time)

Offer upgrade deadline

Tuesday 11 February 2025 (4pm, UK time)

Interview feedback released

(by) Thursday 13 February 2025

Posts commencing from

Wednesday 6 August 2025

Provisional programme numbers

It is the intention that initial programme numbers for all regions will be published prior to the application opening date, although this cannot be guaranteed. Numbers will be updated as and when notifications are received from each region and will be checked later in the round when programme preferences are open for selection.

Please note that stroke medicine programmes in Scotland are recruited via a separate process so are not represented here. There is a separate website for details about vacancies and the process in Scotland.

Vacancies from last year's recruitment can be seen in the data section

Region

Vacancies

East Midlands

tbc

East of England

tbc

London 

tbc

Kent, Surrey and Sussex

tbc

North East

tbc

North West

tbc

South West

(Peninsula)

tbc

(Severn)

tbc

Thames Valley

tbc

Wessex

tbc

West Midlands

tbc

Yorkshire and the Humber

tbc

Wales

tbc

 

Who to contact will depend on the nature of the query:

General / application queries

For general queries relating to areas such as eligibility criteria, making an application on the Oriel system, please contact the Physician Specialty Recruitment Office via the PGMDE support portal: https://lasepgmdesupport.hee.nhs.uk/support/home 

Information about training in a specific region

Queries relating to programme numbers, location of vacancies or the stroke medicine programme in a specific region, should be directed to the relevant region.

Progress of your application

Queries regarding the progress of a submitted application or attending interview should be directed to the lead recruiter. The lead recruiter for stroke medicine for 2025 is Thames Valley.

  

Health Education Thames Valley

  

email address

[email protected] 

website

https://www.hee.nhs.uk/hee-your-area/thames-valley

There is only planned to be one national round of stroke medicine in 2025 which covers England and Wales; please go to the relevant nation to seek information about recruitment to stroke medicine in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Should there be vacancies unfilled from the national round, or they subsequently arise, each region will decide whether they wish to run their own local round.

The timing for any local recruitment will vary on the region so you are advised to contact the region(s) in which you are interested in working directly. All vacancies will be advertised via Oriel and the NHS recruitment portal used by that nation:


     

    Data

    National stroke medicine recruitment has operated since 2019 and there is data from previous rounds to help guide your application. This includes:

    • Competition ratios - application numbers submitted alongside the total vacancies.
    • Total scores – the total score awarded to all candidates who completed the full recruitment process for a specialty (application and interview), including some analysis of scores.
    • Fill rates - the number of vacancies available and number filled by region.