Global partnerships remain in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad knowing opportunities and an increasing demand for NHS expertise and services worldwide.

HEE has legislative responsibility to guarantee that our future workforce is readily available in the right numbers and has the necessary skills, values and behaviours to fulfill patients' needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is distinctively put to support the NHS to become a worldwide centre of quality for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding international abilities, discovering and development, supporting local NHS organisations to engage in worldwide activity as a method to draw in and retain staff, bringing experienced abroad staff to work in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative function to ensure the collective efforts and expertise of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the overseas goals of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a variety of countries, reacting to demands for assistance on workforce development, developing placements for expert groups, matching NHS labor force need with abroad training requirements and looking for new bilateral relationships to reinforce workforce advancement in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our global microsites to find out 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 offering, that includes supporting and motivating NHS personnel to benefit from volunteering opportunities within health and social care and dealing with senior functional leadership to increase recognition of the worth of volunteering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with facilitating and supporting abroad positionings, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has likewise led advancement of an NHS global volunteering platform to display and signpost to information and chances, provide a repository of info and resources on global offering and link candidates with potential hosts.

HEE has also established resources consisting of guidance for those thinking about abroad 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 understanding and abilities acquired through involvement in a global health job (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 professionals to work and learn in the NHS. As part of its federal government required, HEE is working to deal with determined scarcities in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical make, find out, return programs in the NHS throughout a variety of key professions, specializeds and locations.

The ambition is to create a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of friends getting here and returning each year. HEE is producing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to recognize high-quality skilled candidates and support their journey into the programme

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

We are working with a variety of NHS Trusts to provide placement opportunities, and we aspire to hear from registered healthcare professionals who would like to work in the NHS.

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To get the programme please complete the application by means of the tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration team helps with system-to-system Human Resources for Health (HRH) partnerships.

We support health system strengthening for worldwide partners and the NHS, in order to broaden Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

We assist construct more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and worldwide, in order to maximise opportunities and address shared challenges.

We build HRH system ability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper exploration of HRH obstacles and interventions, through the facilitation of top quality strategic analysis, diagnostics and advice with NHS specialists.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS specialists for strategic recommendations on the style and execution of programmes and policy interventions, consisting of technical evaluation and quality control

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

To find out more 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 specialized training is really world class. IPGMTS intends to offer medical specialized training in England, offering the candidates a full duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have completed the program they go back to their sponsor country to put their abilities into practice, leading in service arrangement in their chosen field.

IPGMTS students are sponsored by abroad federal governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce needs. They match British students on existing training programs. Places are restricted and only open through government to federal government contracts.