Why I built MedRank.

When I had to rank over a thousand foundation jobs, I assumed the hard part would be choosing between good options. It wasn't. The hard part was finding anything useful to choose with.

I opened a spreadsheet and started googling hospitals one by one. Most searches went nowhere. The ones that didn't led to outdated PDFs, half-finished deanery pages, or forum threads where the best answer was usually “yeah, it was alright.” I kept closing my laptop, reopening it, and doing the same thing again, because the deadline wasn't moving, and neither was the guesswork.

What stuck with me was that the data already existed. The GMC surveys thousands of trainees every year. The CQC inspects NHS hospitals and publishes the results. It was all public, just scattered across different sites, in different formats, never in one place when you actually needed to rank.

I built MedRank because I wanted that decision to feel less like luck. It pulls together CQC inspection data, GMC trainee satisfaction scores, and the tools below.

No hearsay. No endless forum trawling. Just the information I wished I'd had when I was ranking, built for the next person sitting where I was.