Global partnerships remain in our nationwide interest. The NHS is progressively engaging in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad learning chances and an increasing need for NHS competence and services worldwide.

HEE has legislative duty to ensure that our future workforce is available in the ideal numbers and has the essential abilities, values and behaviours to satisfy clients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is distinctively positioned to support the NHS to become a worldwide centre of quality for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding worldwide abilities, discovering and development, supporting regional NHS organisations to take part in global activity as a way to draw in and keep personnel, bringing experienced overseas staff to operate in the NHS on positionings and likewise by playing a facilitative function to guarantee the cumulative efforts and know-how of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the abroad goals of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a number of countries, responding to ask for support on workforce advancement, developing placements for expert groups, matching NHS labor force need with overseas training requirements and looking for new bilateral relationships to enhance labor force development in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our international microsites for additional information, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our tasks and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the government to support NHS volunteering, which consists of supporting and encouraging NHS staff to make the most of offering chances within health and social care and dealing with senior functional leadership to increase acknowledgment of the worth of offering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with assisting in and supporting abroad positionings, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually likewise led development of an NHS international volunteering platform to showcase and signpost to details and chances, supply a repository of info and resources on worldwide volunteering and connect candidates with possible hosts.

HEE has likewise established resources including assistance for those interested in overseas positionings (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on overseas placements to support collection of evidence of knowledge and skills gained through involvement in an international health project (Toolkit for the Collection of Evidence of Knowledge and Skills Gained Through Participation in an International Health Project)

Global Learners Programme

HEE is assisting in a variety of brief and longer-term quality placement programs for experts to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its government mandate, HEE is working to attend to identified shortages in the NHS by increasing the variety of staff trained in the UK and through advancement ethical make, find out, return programmes in the NHS throughout a variety of essential occupations, specializeds and geographies.

The aspiration is to develop a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of friends showing up and returning each year. HEE is developing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to identify premium knowledgeable prospects and support their journey into the program

HEE supports specialists through their preparation for language and competency tests; entry onto the UK expert register; visa application', and through a thorough programme of pastoral care, including cultural sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are dealing with a variety of NHS Trusts to offer placement chances, and we are eager to speak with signed up health care experts who want to operate in the NHS.

These videos information additional info about the programme

To request the programme please total the application through the online candidate tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration team assists in system-to-system Human Resources for Health (HRH) collaborations.

We support health system strengthening for global partners and the NHS, in order to broaden Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

We help build more resilient and sustainable health systems in the NHS and globally, in order to maximise chances and address shared obstacles.

We develop HRH system capability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS professionals for knowledge-sharing on specific policy challenges, based on NHS competence and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or virtually through interactive workshops, service visits and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper expedition of HRH obstacles and interventions, through the assistance of premium strategic analysis, diagnostics and advice with NHS experts.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS specialists for tactical recommendations on the design and execution of programmes and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality assurance

As HEE is funded by the UK government to support NHS personnel and patients, all global technical collaborations are funded on a fee-paying not-for-profit basis.

To find out more contact [email protected].

International Postgraduate Medical Training Scheme (IPGMTS)

With a long history supported by the Royal Colleges, the UK's medical specialty training is really world class. IPGMTS intends to offer medical specialized training in England, giving the prospects a full replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have actually finished the program they return to their sponsor nation to put their abilities into practice, leading in service provision in their chosen field.

IPGMTS trainees are sponsored by abroad governments or institutions and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce needs. They complement British students on existing training programs. Places are minimal and only open through government to government contracts.