Global collaborations remain in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly appealing in global health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for overseas learning opportunities and an increasing need for NHS know-how and services internationally.

HEE has legislative duty to guarantee that our future workforce is available in the ideal numbers and has the essential abilities, worths and behaviours to meet clients' requirements and deliver high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is uniquely positioned to support the NHS to end up being a global centre of quality for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding global abilities, discovering and development, supporting local NHS organisations to take part in international activity as a way to draw in and keep personnel, bringing knowledgeable abroad personnel to work in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative role to ensure the collective efforts and know-how of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the abroad objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a number of nations, reacting to requests for support on workforce advancement, creating placements for professional groups, matching NHS workforce need with abroad training requirements and looking for out new bilateral relationships to strengthen workforce advancement in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our global microsites for more details, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our tasks and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the government to support NHS offering, that includes supporting and motivating NHS staff to take advantage of offering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior functional leadership to increase acknowledgment of the value of offering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with assisting in and supporting overseas positionings, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually also led advancement of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to showcase and signpost to info and chances, supply a repository of info and resources on international volunteering and connect applicants with possible hosts.

HEE has actually also developed resources consisting of assistance for those interested in abroad positionings (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on abroad placements to support collection of proof of knowledge and abilities 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 facilitating a variety of brief and longer-term quality positioning programmes for professionals to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its government mandate, HEE is working to attend to identified shortages in the NHS by increasing the variety of staff trained in the UK and through development ethical make, discover, return programmes in the NHS across a number of crucial professions, specialties and geographies.

The aspiration is to create a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of friends getting here and returning each year. HEE is developing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to identify top quality experienced prospects and support their journey into the program

HEE supports experts through their preparation for language and competency tests; entry onto the UK professional 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 number of NHS Trusts to offer placement chances, and we aspire to hear from signed up healthcare experts who would like to work in the NHS.

These videos information further info about the program

To look for the program please total the application kind via the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

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

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

We help build more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and internationally, in order to maximise opportunities and address shared obstacles.

We construct HRH system capability through:

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

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

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS professionals for tactical recommendations on the style and implementation of programs and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality control

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

For more info 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 truly world class. IPGMTS intends to supply medical specialized training in England, providing the candidates a full replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have actually completed the programme they return to their sponsor nation to put their skills into practice, leading in service arrangement in their chosen field.

IPGMTS trainees are sponsored by abroad federal governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce requirements. They complement British students on existing training programmes. Places are minimal and only open through government to federal government arrangements.