Global collaborations remain in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly interesting in global health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for overseas learning chances and an increasing need for NHS knowledge and services internationally.

HEE has legal obligation to make sure that our future labor force is available in the right numbers and has the needed skills, worths and behaviours to satisfy clients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is distinctively put to support the NHS to become a worldwide centre of quality for workforce development. HEE can do this by embedding international skills, finding out and innovation, supporting regional NHS organisations to engage in worldwide activity as a way to draw in and keep personnel, bringing experienced overseas personnel to operate in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative function to guarantee the cumulative efforts and proficiency of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the overseas objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

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

Have a look at our international microsites to learn more, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our projects and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the federal government to support NHS offering, which consists of supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to make the most of offering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior functional management to increase recognition of the worth of offering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting overseas positionings, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually also led advancement of an NHS international offering platform to showcase and signpost to information and chances, provide a repository of information and resources on worldwide volunteering and link candidates with prospective hosts.

HEE has also developed 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 evidence of understanding 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 assisting in a number of short and longer-term quality positioning programs for experts to work and learn in the NHS. As part of its mandate, HEE is working to address determined scarcities in the NHS by increasing the number of staff trained in the UK and through development ethical earn, discover, return programs in the NHS throughout a number of key occupations, specialties and locations.

The aspiration is to produce a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of mates getting here and returning each year. HEE is developing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to identify high-quality experienced candidates and support their journey into the programme

HEE supports experts through their preparation for language and proficiency tests; entry onto the UK expert register; visa application', and through a detailed program of pastoral care, including cultural 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 healthcare professionals who want to operate in the NHS.

These videos detail more details about the programme

To obtain the programme please total the application kind via the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration team helps with 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 assist develop more durable and sustainable health systems in the NHS and globally, in order to increase chances and address shared obstacles.

We build HRH system capability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS specialists for knowledge-sharing on specific policy obstacles, based on NHS knowledge and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or essentially through interactive seminars, service check outs and speaking engagements.

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

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS specialists for tactical guidance on the style and execution of programs and policy interventions, including technical evaluation and quality control

As HEE is moneyed 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.

For more info 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 truly world class. IPGMTS intends to offer medical specialized training in England, giving the candidates a complete duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have finished the programme they return to their sponsor country to put their abilities into practice, leading in service arrangement in their chosen field.

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