We currently have approximately 150 Specialty Training Posts at Blackpool.

  • Anaesthetics 
  • Care of the Older Person 
  • Cardiology - The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is situated at the hospital; the unit provides specialist cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery services for Lancashire and Cumbria. 
  • Cardiothoracics 
  • Endo & Diabetes 
  • ENT (Otolaryngology)  
  • Gastroenterology 
  • General Surgery 
  • GUM (Genito-Urinary Medicine) 
  • Haematology 
  • Histopathology 
  • ICM (Intensive Care Medicine) 
  • Obs & Gynae  
  • Ophthalmology 
  • Oral Surgery 
  • Paediatrics 
  • Respiratory 
  • Rheumatology 
  • Trauma & Orthopaedics 

All applications/recruitment for Specialty Training at Blackpool are completed centrally via NHSE & the Specialty Schools. Please see the NHSE Website here: https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment for further information on how the recruitment process works. 

Regional Fill rates & other information can be found here: Fill rates | Medical Hub.

Internal Medicine Training at Blackpool  

We have 32 IMT posts, covering IM1, 2 & 3 at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals in a variety of Medical Specialties as well as Cardiology & ICM. You would be assigned your track by the TPD/IMT Support Team at Preston who run the Northwest IMT programme, dependant on your training needs. 

For our IMT1,2 & 3 Doctors, we work with Clinical Skills to run a monthly teaching programme, covering a variety of clinical skills which help you to develop your skills & get your clinical competencies signed off ready for ARCP’s. The Clinical Skills Programme includes a full day’s skills induction session at the start of the academic year focusing on the following: Lumbar puncture, Pleural Aspiration, Paracentesis, FB Nasogastric Tube Placement & central/IO Access.  

The monthly afternoon sessions for the rest of the year cover the following: Chronic pain, US teaching, Cardiac emergencies, US peripheral access and LP, Human Factors, Pleural/ascitic drains and aspiration, DNACPR & Sepsis.  

You also have the opportunity as IMT Doctors to organise your own local teaching programme over lunchtime sessions, with support from the IMT Leads & Education Team. 

We also support the IMT regional teaching programme by hosting 3 sessions per year at Blackpool, featuring lectures from Blackpool’s own subject matter specialists.