Global collaborations remain in our nationwide interest. The NHS is significantly interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad knowing chances and an increasing need for NHS proficiency and services worldwide.

HEE has legal obligation to ensure that our future workforce is readily available in the right numbers and has the needed skills, worths and behaviours to satisfy clients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is uniquely positioned to support the NHS to become an international centre of excellence for workforce development. HEE can do this by embedding international abilities, learning and innovation, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in global activity as a method to attract and keep staff, bringing experienced overseas staff to operate in the NHS on placements and likewise by playing a facilitative function to make sure the collective efforts and know-how of the NHS is collaborated and lined up to the abroad objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a variety of countries, reacting to requests for support on labor force development, producing placements for expert groups, matching NHS workforce require with overseas training requirements and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to reinforce workforce development in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our international 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 volunteering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to benefit from offering chances within health and social care and dealing with senior operational leadership to increase acknowledgment of the value of offering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders included in 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 display and signpost to information and chances, supply a repository of details and resources on worldwide volunteering and link applicants with potential hosts.

HEE has also established resources consisting of assistance for those thinking about abroad placements (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on overseas placements to support collection of proof of knowledge and skills acquired through participation in a global 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 facilitating a variety of short and longer-term quality placement programmes for specialists to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its federal government mandate, HEE is working to attend to identified scarcities in the NHS by increasing the number of staff trained in the UK and through advancement ethical earn, learn, return programs in the NHS throughout a variety of crucial occupations, specialties and locations.

The aspiration is to create 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 recognize premium experienced prospects 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 an extensive program of pastoral care, including cultural sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are working with a variety of NHS Trusts to provide positioning opportunities, and we aspire to speak with registered healthcare experts who want to operate in the NHS.

These videos detail additional info 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 group assists in system-to-system Human Resources for Health (HRH) collaborations.

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

We help develop more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and internationally, in order to maximise chances and address shared difficulties.

We develop HRH system ability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS professionals for knowledge-sharing on specific policy obstacles, based upon NHS know-how and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or practically through interactive seminars, 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 recommendations with NHS specialists.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS professionals for strategic guidance on the design and execution of programmes and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality control

As HEE is moneyed by the UK federal government to support NHS staff and patients, all global technical collaborations 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 specialty training is truly world class. IPGMTS intends to offer medical specialized training in England, offering the candidates a full replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have completed the program they return to their sponsor country to put their abilities into practice, leading in service provision in their chosen field.

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