Undergraduate Medical and Dental Student Data Collection - 9th January – 20th February 2026
Collection Overview
The data provided by Medical and Dental Schools through NHS England’s data collection process determines clinical placement funding each NHS financial year.
The Undergraduate Medical and Dental Data Collection template has been designed to collect two areas of Student Activity:
- Cohort-level activity for each year of an Undergraduate Medical and Dental Course.
- Placement activity for those placements that attract tariff payments.
It aims to answer the following business questions:
- What is the future workforce supply over the short, medium and long term?
- What is the potential supply to PG medical and dental foundation training?
- How many students are studying, what are they studying and where?
- How much income does NHSE need to receive for medical and dental student clinical placements and bursaries in the short and medium term?
- What budget does NHSE need to set in the short and medium term for the planned delivery of clinical placements for students at each medical and dental school?
- How many students will be in education in the current and following academic year by course and by course year?
- How much of each course year will students be on clinical placement in the current and following academic year?
- Which providers are/will be delivering the clinical placements in the short and medium term to inform the funding to transfer via NHSE's education contracts?
- What placement sessions are agreed upon/in the process of being agreed upon with each provider for the current and following academic year?
- In which healthcare settings will students be placed, and for how much of each course year?
Timeline
This collection is open for submission from 9th January - 20th February 2026. Please ensure you submit this data by the deadline of 20th February 2026 via the eCollection portal.
The regional validation sign-off is 18th March 2026.
The next collection will go live:
- 05 June 2026. The deadline for submission is 5:00 pm on 10th July 2026.
The timeline for the 3 collections in the 2026-27 financial years is available to be downloaded from the home page on the portal.
Support Requests (Technical & General or Financial)
For technical support (eg to access the NHS England e-collection portal, to amend user details, to set up additional users or any other technical enquiries), and for general support relating to the Undergraduate Medical and Dental data collection (for example policy, financial) please raise a support request with the NHS England National Service Desk (NSD).
Logging a request on the NHSE NSD support request portal (preferred):
Customer Service Portal - Customer Support
Or send an email to
ssd.nationalservicedesk@nhs.net
Regional Support
If you do require regional support with the Undergraduate Medical and Dental data collection, please contact your regional UGMD lead.