Global collaborations are in our national interest. The NHS is significantly interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for overseas knowing opportunities and an increasing need for NHS knowledge and services worldwide.

HEE has legal duty to ensure that our future workforce is offered in the ideal numbers and has the essential abilities, worths and behaviours to meet clients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is distinctively positioned to support the NHS to end up being an international centre of quality for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding international abilities, finding out and innovation, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in worldwide activity as a way to draw in and keep staff, bringing skilled overseas personnel to work in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative role to guarantee the collective efforts and proficiency of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the overseas goals of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a number of nations, reacting to ask for assistance on labor force advancement, producing placements for expert groups, matching NHS workforce require with abroad training requirements and looking for out brand-new bilateral relationships to enhance workforce development in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our worldwide microsites for more details, 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 offering, which includes supporting and motivating NHS staff to benefit from volunteering chances within health and social care and working with senior operational management to increase recognition of the value of offering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting overseas placements, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually also led advancement of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to showcase and signpost to info and chances, supply a repository of details and resources on global volunteering and connect applicants with prospective hosts.

HEE has actually also developed resources including guidance for those interested in overseas positionings (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on abroad positionings to support collection of proof of understanding and skills acquired through involvement in a global health task (Toolkit for the Collection of Evidence of Knowledge and Skills Gained Through Participation in an International Health Project)

Global Learners Programme

HEE is helping with a number of short and longer-term quality positioning programs for professionals to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its federal government required, HEE is working to resolve identified scarcities in the NHS by increasing the variety of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical make, find out, return programs in the NHS throughout a variety of essential occupations, specialties and geographies.

The aspiration is to develop a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of friends arriving and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to identify top quality skilled candidates and support their journey into the program

HEE supports experts through their preparation for language and competency tests; entry onto the UK expert register; visa application', and through a comprehensive program of pastoral care, consisting of cultural level of sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are working with a number of NHS Trusts to offer placement opportunities, and we are excited to hear from registered healthcare specialists who want to operate in the NHS.

These videos detail additional details about the programme

To look for the programme please total the application type 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) partnerships.

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

We assist develop more durable and sustainable health systems in the NHS and globally, in order to maximise opportunities and address shared difficulties.

We build HRH system ability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS experts for knowledge-sharing on specific policy difficulties, based on NHS proficiency and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or practically through interactive seminars, service visits and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper exploration of HRH obstacles and interventions, through the facilitation of top quality tactical analysis, diagnostics and recommendations with NHS experts.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with for tactical guidance on the design and execution of programmes and policy interventions, including technical evaluation and quality guarantee

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

To learn more get in touch with ge@hee.nhs.uk.

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 aims to supply medical specialized training in England, offering the candidates a complete replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have actually completed the program they return to their sponsor nation to put their abilities into practice, leading in service arrangement in their selected field.

IPGMTS trainees are sponsored by overseas governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce needs. They match British trainees on existing training programs. Places are minimal and only open by means of government to government agreements.