Certificate of Readiness

You may be required to submit a Certificate of Readiness to Enter Specialty Training (CREST) with your application

Important: Important

Please ensure you check the guidance carefully to confirm the appropriate method to demonstrate your foundation competence. 

If you are required to submit evidence of competence, for example a Foundation Programme Certificate of Completion (FPCC) or a Certificate of Readiness to Enter Specialty Training (CREST), with your application, and do not do so then you will not be offered another opportunity to upload it and your application will not proceed to the next stage of the process.

The 2024 CREST form was updated in September 2024 to include an applicant checklist. Either version of the 2024 CREST form (last updated 2023 or 2024) will be accepted for 2025 recruitment rounds.

  • CREST Form

    Access the current version of the Certificate of Readiness to Enter Specialty Training (CREST) form

  • CREST Checklist

    Make sure you have correctly completed your form with our checklists

  • CREST Reference Version

    Certificate of Readiness to Enter Specialty Training (CREST) reference version

  • Dean’s Supporting Declaration

    This is to be used if you started but did not successfully completed a UKFPO-appointed 2-year Foundation programme or FY2 standalone post

Page last reviewed: 27 September 2024
Next review due: 27 September 2025