Global partnerships are in our national interest. The NHS is progressively engaging in international health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad learning chances and an increasing demand for NHS knowledge and services globally.

HEE has legislative obligation to guarantee that our future labor force is readily available in the best 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 distinctively put to support the NHS to become a global centre of excellence for workforce development. HEE can do this by embedding global abilities, learning and innovation, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in global activity as a method to attract and keep personnel, bringing knowledgeable abroad personnel to work in the NHS on positionings and likewise by playing a facilitative function to guarantee the collective efforts and knowledge of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the abroad goals of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a number of countries, reacting to requests for assistance on labor force development, creating placements for professional groups, matching NHS labor force require with overseas training requirements and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to strengthen labor force advancement in the NHS and overseas.

Take an appearance at our worldwide microsites for more info, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our projects and programmes

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the federal government to support NHS volunteering, which includes 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 value of offering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders associated with facilitating and supporting abroad positionings, and offering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has also led development of an NHS international volunteering platform to display and signpost to info and opportunities, supply a repository of information and resources on global offering and connect candidates with prospective hosts.

HEE has actually likewise established resources including assistance for those interested in abroad placements (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 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 helping with a variety of brief and longer-term quality positioning programmes for experts to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its federal government mandate, HEE is working to attend to identified shortages in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical make, discover, return programmes in the NHS throughout a variety of essential occupations, specializeds and locations.

The aspiration is to develop a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of friends getting here and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to recognize top quality experienced prospects and support their journey into the programme

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

We are dealing with a number of NHS Trusts to use placement chances, and we are excited to speak with registered health care experts who would like to operate in the NHS.

These videos information more information about the programme

To obtain the programme please complete 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 enhancing for global partners and the NHS, in order to broaden Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

We assist construct more resilient and sustainable health systems in the NHS and globally, in order to maximise chances and address shared challenges.

We develop HRH system ability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper exploration of HRH obstacles and interventions, through the assistance of high-quality strategic analysis, diagnostics and recommendations with NHS specialists.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS professionals for strategic advice on the design and application of programmes and policy interventions, consisting of technical evaluation and quality control

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

To find out 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 offer medical specialized training in England, giving the candidates a full replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have finished the programme they go back to their sponsor nation to put their abilities into practice, leading in service arrangement in their picked field.

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