Global partnerships are in our national interest. The NHS is progressively interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad knowing chances and an increasing need for NHS knowledge and services worldwide.

HEE has legislative obligation to guarantee that our future workforce is offered in the best numbers and has the needed skills, worths and behaviours to meet clients' requirements and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is distinctively positioned to support the NHS to end up being a global centre of excellence for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding international skills, finding out and innovation, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in global activity as a method to draw in and keep personnel, bringing skilled abroad staff to operate in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative role to make sure the cumulative efforts and proficiency of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the abroad objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a variety of nations, responding to demands for support on workforce advancement, developing placements for expert groups, matching NHS workforce require with overseas training requirements and looking for new bilateral relationships to strengthen workforce development in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our worldwide 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 offering, that includes supporting and motivating NHS personnel to benefit from volunteering chances within health and social care and dealing with senior functional management to increase acknowledgment of the worth of volunteering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders included in assisting in and supporting abroad positionings, and volunteering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has actually likewise led advancement of an NHS international volunteering platform to display and signpost to information and opportunities, supply a repository of info and resources on international offering and link applicants with possible hosts.

HEE has also established resources consisting of assistance for those thinking about abroad positionings (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 understanding and abilities acquired through participation 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 facilitating a variety of short and longer-term quality positioning programs for experts to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to resolve recognized scarcities in the NHS by increasing the variety of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical make, discover, return programmes in the NHS across a number of crucial professions, specializeds and locations.

The ambition is to create a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of cohorts showing up and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to identify high-quality skilled 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 a thorough programme of pastoral care, including cultural sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are dealing with a variety of NHS Trusts to use placement chances, and we are eager to speak with signed up healthcare experts who would like to work in the NHS.

These videos detail additional info about the programme

To make an application for the program please complete the application type through the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration team helps with system-to-system Human Resources for Health (HRH) partnerships.

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

We help develop more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and globally, in order to increase chances and address shared difficulties.

We build HRH system ability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS specialists for knowledge-sharing on particular policy difficulties, based on NHS competence and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or virtually through interactive workshops, service sees and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper exploration of HRH challenges and interventions, through the facilitation of top quality strategic analysis, diagnostics and advice with NHS professionals.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS experts for tactical guidance on the design and implementation of programmes and policy interventions, consisting of technical evaluation and quality guarantee

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

To learn more connect 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 truly 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 the programme they go back to their sponsor nation to put their abilities into practice, leading in service arrangement in their selected field.

IPGMTS trainees are sponsored by overseas federal governments or institutions and are supernumerary to the UK's medical labor force needs. They complement British students on existing training programs. Places are minimal and only open by means of government to federal government agreements.