Global partnerships remain in our nationwide interest. The NHS is significantly engaging in international health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad learning chances and an increasing need for NHS knowledge and services internationally.

HEE has legal responsibility to make sure that our future workforce is readily available in the best numbers and has the required skills, values and behaviours to fulfill clients' requirements and provide high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is distinctively positioned to support the NHS to become a worldwide centre of quality for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding international abilities, learning and innovation, supporting regional NHS organisations to engage in international activity as a method to bring in and maintain personnel, bringing experienced abroad personnel to operate in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative role to ensure 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 dealing with a variety of nations, responding to ask for support on workforce development, creating positionings for professional groups, matching NHS labor force need with overseas training requirements and seeking out new bilateral relationships to enhance labor force advancement in the NHS and overseas.

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

Examples of our tasks and programmes

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the government to support NHS volunteering, which includes supporting and motivating NHS personnel to benefit from offering opportunities within health and social care and dealing with senior operational management to increase acknowledgment of the value of offering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders associated with assisting in and supporting overseas placements, and offering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has also led development of an NHS worldwide offering platform to showcase and signpost to details and opportunities, offer a repository of information and resources on global offering and connect candidates with potential hosts.

HEE has likewise developed resources including assistance for those thinking about overseas 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 knowledge and skills gained through participation 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 helping with a number of short and longer-term quality placement programmes for experts to work and learn in the NHS. As part of its government mandate, HEE is working to address determined lacks in the NHS by increasing the variety of staff trained in the UK and through development ethical make, discover, return programs in the NHS across a variety of essential professions, specializeds and locations.

The ambition is to produce 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 determine high-quality knowledgeable candidates and support their journey into the program

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

We are dealing with a number of NHS Trusts to use placement opportunities, and we are eager to hear from registered healthcare experts who would like to work in the NHS.

These videos detail further information about the program

To make an application for the programme please total the application kind through the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration group 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 assist construct more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and worldwide, in order to maximise chances and address shared difficulties.

We develop HRH system ability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper exploration of HRH challenges and interventions, through the assistance of high-quality tactical analysis, diagnostics and suggestions with NHS professionals.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS specialists for strategic recommendations on the style and implementation of programs and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality assurance

As HEE is moneyed by the UK federal government to support NHS staff and clients, all global technical cooperations 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 really world class. IPGMTS aims to supply medical specialty training in England, giving the candidates a full duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have actually completed the programme they go back to their sponsor nation to put their abilities into practice, leading in service provision in their chosen field.

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