Global partnerships remain in our national interest. The NHS is progressively engaging in international health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for overseas knowing chances and an increasing demand for NHS proficiency and services globally.

HEE has legislative responsibility to guarantee that our future workforce is offered in the best numbers and has the necessary abilities, values and behaviours to satisfy clients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is distinctively positioned to support the NHS to end up being a worldwide centre of quality for workforce development. HEE can do this by embedding international abilities, learning and innovation, supporting regional NHS organisations to engage in worldwide activity as a method to attract and retain personnel, bringing skilled abroad personnel to operate in the NHS on positionings and also by playing a facilitative role to make sure the cumulative efforts and expertise of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the abroad objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has been dealing with a variety of countries, responding to ask for assistance on labor force advancement, creating placements for professional groups, matching NHS labor force need with abroad training requirements and seeking out new bilateral relationships to reinforce workforce development in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our global 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 federal government to support NHS offering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS staff to take benefit of offering chances within health and social care and working with senior functional management to increase acknowledgment of the value of offering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with assisting in and supporting abroad positionings, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually likewise led advancement of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to showcase and signpost to info and chances, offer a repository of information and resources on worldwide volunteering and link candidates with prospective hosts.

HEE has actually also developed resources including guidance for those interested in overseas positionings (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on overseas positionings to support collection of proof of knowledge and skills gotten 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 assisting in a number of short and longer-term quality placement programmes for specialists to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its government mandate, HEE is working to address determined scarcities in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical make, learn, return programmes in the NHS throughout a variety of essential occupations, specialties and geographies.

The aspiration is to produce a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of friends showing up and returning each year. HEE is producing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to identify top quality skilled candidates 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, including cultural level of sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are working with a number of NHS Trusts to use positioning chances, and we aspire to hear from signed up healthcare professionals who want to operate in the NHS.

These videos detail additional details about the programme

To request the program please complete the application through 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 broaden Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

We assist develop more durable and sustainable health systems in the NHS and internationally, in order to increase chances and address shared obstacles.

We build HRH system capability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper expedition of HRH difficulties and interventions, through the facilitation of premium tactical analysis, diagnostics and guidance with NHS professionals.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS experts for strategic advice on the design and execution of programs and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality assurance

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

For additional 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 genuinely world class. IPGMTS aims to offer medical specialty training in England, providing the candidates a full duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have completed the program 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 overseas governments or institutions and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce needs. They match British trainees on existing training programmes. Places are minimal and just open via government to federal government arrangements.