Global partnerships are in our national interest. The NHS is significantly appealing in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad learning opportunities and an increasing need for NHS knowledge and services globally.

HEE has legal duty to make sure that our future workforce is readily available in the best numbers and has the required abilities, values and behaviours to fulfill patients' requirements and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is uniquely placed to support the NHS to become a global centre of quality for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding global skills, discovering and development, supporting local NHS organisations to engage in global activity as a method to bring in and maintain staff, bringing experienced overseas personnel to operate in the NHS on placements and likewise by playing a facilitative role to ensure the cumulative efforts and knowledge of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the abroad objectives of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has been dealing with a number of countries, responding to ask for support on workforce development, producing placements for expert groups, matching NHS labor force require with overseas training requirements and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to strengthen labor force 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 projects and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the government to support NHS offering, which includes supporting and motivating NHS staff to make the most of offering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior functional leadership to increase recognition of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting abroad positionings, and volunteering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has also led advancement of an NHS international volunteering platform to display and signpost to details and chances, provide a repository of details and resources on worldwide offering and link candidates with potential hosts.

HEE has actually likewise developed resources consisting of 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 positionings to support collection of proof of understanding and abilities acquired through participation in a worldwide 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 number of short and longer-term quality positioning programs for professionals to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its federal government required, HEE is working to attend to identified lacks in the NHS by increasing the variety of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical make, discover, return programs in the NHS across a variety of essential occupations, specialties and locations.

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

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

We are dealing with a number of NHS Trusts to provide placement chances, and we aspire to speak with registered healthcare professionals who want to work in the NHS.

These videos information more information about the programme

To get the programme please total the application by means of the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration team facilitates 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 help develop more resilient and sustainable health systems in the NHS and worldwide, in order to increase chances and address shared difficulties.

We construct HRH system ability through:

Knowledge Exchange

Access to NHS specialists for knowledge-sharing on specific policy challenges, based on NHS proficiency and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or practically through interactive seminars, service gos to and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice

Collaborative deeper expedition of HRH difficulties and interventions, through the assistance of high-quality strategic analysis, diagnostics and guidance with NHS professionals.

Implementation Support

Defined partnership-working with NHS for tactical advice on the style and execution of programs and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality control

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

For more information 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 really world class. IPGMTS intends to supply medical specialty training in England, offering the candidates a complete duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have actually completed the program they return to their sponsor country to put their abilities into practice, leading in service provision in their picked field.

IPGMTS students are sponsored by abroad federal governments or institutions and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce needs. They match British students on existing training programs. Places are restricted and just open by means of government to federal government agreements.