Global collaborations are 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 demand for NHS expertise and services worldwide.

HEE has legal duty to ensure that our future labor force is available in the best numbers and has the necessary abilities, worths and behaviours to fulfill patients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is uniquely put to support the NHS to become a global centre of quality for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding global abilities, finding out and development, supporting local NHS organisations to engage in worldwide activity as a way to bring in and maintain personnel, bringing skilled overseas personnel to work in the NHS on placements and likewise by playing a facilitative role to make sure the collective efforts and competence of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the overseas goals of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a number of nations, reacting to requests for support on labor force advancement, developing positionings for expert groups, matching NHS labor force require with overseas training requirements and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to enhance labor force advancement in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our worldwide microsites for more details, 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, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to benefit from offering opportunities within health and social care and dealing with senior functional leadership to increase recognition of the value of offering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders included in helping with and supporting overseas placements, and volunteering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has actually likewise led development of an NHS international offering platform to display and signpost to information and chances, supply a repository of info and resources on international volunteering and connect applicants with potential 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 positionings to support collection of evidence of knowledge 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 facilitating a number of brief and longer-term quality positioning programs for specialists to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to attend to determined scarcities in the NHS by increasing the number of staff trained in the UK and through development ethical make, learn, return programs in the NHS throughout a variety of essential professions, specializeds and locations.

The aspiration is to create a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of associates arriving and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to identify top quality knowledgeable candidates and support their journey into the program

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

We are working with a number of NHS Trusts to provide placement chances, and we are excited to speak with signed up healthcare specialists who would like to work in the NHS.

These videos information additional info about the programme

To obtain the program please complete the application form through the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration group assists in system-to-system Human Resources for Health (HRH) partnerships.

We support health system enhancing for worldwide 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 opportunities and address shared obstacles.

We develop HRH system ability through:

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

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

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS experts for strategic advice on the style and execution of programmes and policy interventions, including technical review and quality guarantee

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

To find out more contact 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 provide medical specialized training in England, giving the candidates a complete duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have finished the programme they go back to their sponsor country to put their abilities into practice, leading in service arrangement in their picked field.

IPGMTS students are sponsored by abroad governments or institutions and are supernumerary to the UK's medical labor force needs. They match British students on existing training programs. Places are limited and only open through government to government agreements.