Global Health Partnerships

Global partnerships remain in our nationwide interest. The NHS is increasingly interesting in international health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for overseas learning chances and an increasing need for NHS competence and services worldwide.

HEE has legislative obligation to make sure that our future workforce is readily available in the right numbers and has the needed skills, worths and behaviours to satisfy patients' needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is uniquely positioned to support the NHS to end up being an international centre of excellence for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding worldwide abilities, discovering and development, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in worldwide activity as a method to bring in and maintain personnel, bringing experienced abroad staff to operate in the NHS on positionings and likewise by playing a facilitative role to make sure the cumulative efforts and know-how of the NHS is collaborated and lined up to the overseas objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a number of countries, reacting to requests for support on workforce development, creating placements for professional groups, matching NHS workforce need with abroad training requirements and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to strengthen labor force development 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 jobs and programmes

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the federal government to support NHS offering, which consists of supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to benefit from offering opportunities within health and social care and with senior operational management to increase acknowledgment of the worth of volunteering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders involved in facilitating and supporting overseas placements, and offering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has likewise led advancement of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to display and signpost to details and chances, provide a repository of details and resources on worldwide offering and connect applicants with potential hosts.

HEE has likewise developed resources consisting of assistance for those thinking about overseas positionings (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on overseas positionings to support collection of evidence of understanding and skills acquired through participation 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 facilitating a variety of brief and longer-term quality placement programs for experts to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its federal government mandate, HEE is working to address determined scarcities in the NHS by increasing the number of staff trained in the UK and through development ethical make, learn, return programmes in the NHS across a variety of essential professions, specialties and locations.

The ambition is to produce a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of accomplices getting here and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to recognize high-quality skilled prospects and support their journey into the program

HEE supports professionals through their preparation for language and proficiency tests; entry onto the UK professional register; visa application', and through a thorough 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 use placement opportunities, and we are eager to hear from signed up health care experts who wish to work in the NHS.

These videos information additional information about the programme

To make an application for the programme please total the application via 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 strengthening for international partners and the NHS, in order to broaden Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

We assist develop more durable and sustainable health systems in the NHS and internationally, in order to maximise opportunities and address shared difficulties.

We construct HRH system ability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper expedition of HRH challenges and interventions, through the assistance of high-quality strategic analysis, diagnostics and guidance with NHS professionals.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS experts for strategic suggestions on the design and implementation of programs and policy interventions, including technical evaluation and quality assurance

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

To learn 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 genuinely world class. IPGMTS aims to offer medical specialized training in England, offering the candidates a full replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have finished the programme they return to their sponsor nation to put their skills into practice, leading in service provision in their chosen field.

IPGMTS students are sponsored by abroad governments or institutions and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce requirements. They match British trainees on existing training programmes. Places are restricted and only open by means of government to federal government agreements.