Global partnerships are in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly engaging in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad learning opportunities and an increasing demand for NHS know-how and services globally.

HEE has legislative obligation to make sure that our future workforce is available in the right numbers and has the essential abilities, values and behaviours to satisfy clients' needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is uniquely put to support the NHS to become a worldwide centre of quality for labor force advancement. HEE can do this by embedding global abilities, learning and innovation, supporting local NHS organisations to take part in worldwide activity as a method to bring in and keep personnel, bringing skilled abroad staff to work in the NHS on placements and likewise by playing a facilitative role to make sure the cumulative efforts and expertise of the NHS is collaborated and aligned to the abroad objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has been working with a variety of countries, reacting to ask for support on workforce advancement, producing positionings for expert groups, matching NHS labor force require with abroad training requirements and looking for out brand-new bilateral relationships to strengthen workforce advancement in the NHS and overseas.

Take a look at our global microsites for more details, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our tasks and programmes

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the federal government to support NHS offering, which consists of supporting and motivating NHS staff to take advantage of volunteering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior functional leadership to increase acknowledgment of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting abroad placements, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually also led development of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to display and signpost to details and chances, supply a repository of details and resources on global offering and link candidates with prospective hosts.

HEE has actually also established resources including guidance for those thinking about overseas placements (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on abroad placements to support collection of proof of knowledge and abilities acquired through participation in an international 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 facilitating a variety of short and longer-term quality placement programmes for professionals to work and learn in the NHS. As part of its federal government required, HEE is working to attend to recognized lacks in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through development ethical make, discover, return programmes in the NHS throughout a variety of essential occupations, specialties and geographies.

The ambition is to create a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of mates arriving and returning each year. HEE is relationships with 'in-country' partners to determine high-quality experienced candidates and support their journey into the programme

HEE supports professionals through their preparation for language and proficiency tests; entry onto the UK expert register; visa application', and through an extensive 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 aspire to speak with signed up health care specialists who would like to operate in the NHS.

These videos detail further details about the program

To get the program please total the application through the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

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

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

We assist build more durable and sustainable health systems in the NHS and internationally, in order to increase chances and address shared difficulties.

We build HRH system ability through:

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

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

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS experts for strategic advice on the style and execution of programs and policy interventions, consisting of technical evaluation and quality control

As HEE is funded by the UK government to support NHS staff and clients, all global technical cooperations are moneyed on a fee-paying not-for-profit basis.

For more details contact 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 truly world class. IPGMTS aims to supply medical specialty training in England, offering the candidates a full duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have completed the programme they return to their sponsor nation to put their skills into practice, leading in service arrangement in their selected field.

IPGMTS trainees are sponsored by overseas federal governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce requirements. They complement British students on existing training programmes. Places are minimal and just open by means of government to government agreements.