Global collaborations are in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly engaging in global health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad learning opportunities and an increasing need for NHS proficiency and services globally.

HEE has legislative obligation to guarantee that our future workforce is available in the ideal numbers and has the necessary abilities, worths and behaviours to fulfill patients' needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is uniquely put to support the NHS to end up being a global centre of excellence for labor force advancement. HEE can do this by embedding worldwide abilities, discovering and development, supporting regional NHS organisations to take part in international activity as a way to draw in and keep personnel, bringing knowledgeable overseas staff to work in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative role to make sure the cumulative efforts and know-how of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the overseas objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a variety of nations, responding to ask for assistance 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 strengthen labor force 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 volunteering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS staff to take benefit of volunteering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior operational leadership to increase acknowledgment of the worth of volunteering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders associated with facilitating and supporting overseas placements, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually likewise led development of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to display and signpost to information and chances, offer a repository of info and resources on international volunteering and connect candidates with prospective hosts.

HEE has actually likewise developed resources consisting of guidance for those interested in (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on abroad positionings to support collection of evidence of knowledge and abilities gotten through participation 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 facilitating a number of brief and longer-term quality positioning programmes for experts to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its federal government mandate, HEE is working to resolve identified lacks in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through development ethical make, find out, return programs in the NHS across a number of essential occupations, specialties and geographies.

The ambition is to develop a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of cohorts arriving and returning each year. HEE is producing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to determine top quality experienced prospects and support their journey into the programme

HEE supports experts 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 number of NHS Trusts to provide placement chances, and we are eager to hear from registered healthcare specialists who would like to operate in the NHS.

These videos information more details about the program

To obtain the program please complete the application via the online candidate tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

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

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

We assist build more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and worldwide, in order to increase opportunities and address shared obstacles.

We build HRH system capability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper expedition of HRH challenges and interventions, through the assistance of top quality tactical analysis, diagnostics and recommendations with NHS professionals.

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

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

For more details 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 intends to supply medical specialty training in England, offering the candidates a complete replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have completed the program they go back to their sponsor nation to put their skills into practice, leading in service arrangement in their selected field.

IPGMTS trainees are sponsored by overseas governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical labor force needs. They match British trainees on existing training programmes. Places are limited and just open by means of federal government to federal government contracts.