Global collaborations remain in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for overseas learning opportunities and an increasing demand for NHS proficiency and services worldwide.

HEE has legislative obligation to make sure that our future workforce is readily available in the ideal numbers and has the necessary skills, worths and behaviours to meet clients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is distinctively put to support the NHS to end up being a worldwide centre of excellence for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding global skills, learning and innovation, supporting regional NHS organisations to engage in global activity as a method to attract and maintain personnel, bringing experienced overseas staff to operate in the NHS on placements and likewise by playing a facilitative function to guarantee the cumulative efforts and expertise of the NHS is collaborated and aligned to the overseas objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a number of countries, responding to requests for support on labor force advancement, developing positionings for professional groups, matching NHS labor force need with overseas training requirements and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to reinforce labor force advancement in the NHS and overseas.

Take an appearance at our international microsites to learn more, 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 volunteering, which includes supporting and motivating NHS staff to make the most of offering opportunities within health and social care and dealing with senior functional management to increase acknowledgment of the value of offering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders involved in facilitating and supporting abroad positionings, and volunteering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has actually also led development of an NHS global volunteering platform to showcase and signpost to info and opportunities, offer a repository of details and resources on international offering and connect applicants with possible hosts.

HEE has actually also established resources consisting of assistance for those interested in overseas placements (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 knowledge and skills acquired through involvement 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 assisting in a number of short and longer-term quality positioning programs for experts to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its government mandate, HEE is working to resolve determined scarcities in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical make, discover, return programmes in the NHS throughout a number of crucial occupations, specializeds and locations.

The aspiration is to develop a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of accomplices showing up and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to determine high-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 expert register; visa application', and through a comprehensive programme of pastoral care, consisting of cultural level of sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are dealing with a variety of NHS Trusts to offer positioning chances, and we are excited to hear from signed up healthcare specialists who wish to work in the NHS.

These videos detail further details about the program

To request the programme please complete the application by means of the online candidate 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 reinforcing for worldwide 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 globally, in order to maximise opportunities and address shared obstacles.

We build HRH system ability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper expedition of HRH difficulties and interventions, through the facilitation of premium strategic analysis, diagnostics and suggestions with NHS specialists.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS specialists for strategic advice on the design and application of programs and policy interventions, including technical evaluation and quality control

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

For additional information 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 genuinely world class. IPGMTS intends to offer medical specialized training in England, providing the prospects a full duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have actually completed the program they go back to their sponsor country to put their skills into practice, leading in service arrangement in their chosen field.

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