Global partnerships remain in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly appealing in global health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad learning chances and an increasing need for NHS expertise and services internationally.

HEE has legal obligation to ensure that our future labor force is available in the best numbers and has the necessary skills, worths and behaviours to fulfill clients' needs and provide 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 excellence for workforce development. HEE can do this by embedding global abilities, discovering and development, supporting regional NHS organisations to take part in international activity as a method to bring in and retain personnel, bringing knowledgeable overseas personnel to operate in the NHS on positionings and likewise by playing a facilitative role to guarantee the collective efforts and proficiency of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the overseas objectives of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

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

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

Examples of our projects and programmes

International Volunteering

HEE is by the federal government to support NHS volunteering, which consists of supporting and encouraging NHS staff to take benefit of offering chances within health and social care and dealing with senior functional leadership to increase recognition of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting overseas positionings, and volunteering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has actually also led advancement of an NHS worldwide offering platform to display and signpost to details and chances, provide a repository of info and resources on international volunteering and connect applicants with possible hosts.

HEE has actually likewise developed 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 overseas placements to support collection of evidence of knowledge and abilities 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 facilitating a variety of brief and longer-term quality positioning programs for professionals to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to attend to determined lacks in the NHS by increasing the number of staff trained in the UK and through development ethical make, find out, return programs in the NHS across a variety of key occupations, specialties and geographies.

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

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

We are dealing with a number of NHS Trusts to provide placement opportunities, and we are excited to hear from signed up healthcare specialists who wish to work in the NHS.

These videos information more info about the program

To make an application for the program please total the application type via the online applicant 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 strengthening for international partners and the NHS, in order to expand Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

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

We construct HRH system capability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper expedition of HRH challenges and interventions, through the facilitation of top quality tactical analysis, diagnostics and guidance with NHS experts.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS specialists for tactical suggestions on the design and implementation of programs and policy interventions, including technical review and quality assurance

As HEE is funded by the UK federal government to support NHS staff and clients, all worldwide technical partnerships are funded 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 specialized training is genuinely world class. IPGMTS intends to provide medical specialized training in England, providing the prospects a complete replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have actually finished the program they return to their sponsor country to put their skills into practice, leading in service arrangement in their selected field.

IPGMTS students are sponsored by abroad governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce needs. They match British students on existing training programmes. Places are limited and only open via federal government to government contracts.