Global Health Partnerships

Global collaborations are in our national interest. The NHS is progressively engaging in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad learning chances and an increasing demand for NHS expertise and services internationally.

HEE has legal duty to guarantee that our future labor force is available in the best numbers and has the needed skills, worths and behaviours to satisfy patients' requirements and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is uniquely put to support the NHS to end up being a worldwide centre of excellence for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding global skills, finding out and development, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in international activity as a method to bring in and retain personnel, bringing experienced overseas personnel to work in the NHS on positionings and also by playing a facilitative role to make sure the cumulative efforts and knowledge of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the abroad objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has been dealing with a variety of countries, reacting to ask for assistance on workforce development, developing positionings for professional groups, matching NHS workforce need with abroad training requirements and seeking out brand-new bilateral relationships to enhance labor force development in the NHS and overseas.

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

Examples of our jobs and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the federal government to support NHS volunteering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS staff to benefit from offering chances within health and social care and working with senior functional leadership to increase acknowledgment of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders included in helping with and supporting overseas positionings, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually also led advancement of an NHS worldwide offering platform to display and signpost to information and opportunities, provide a repository of info and resources on worldwide volunteering and link applicants with .

HEE has also established resources including 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 overseas placements to support collection of evidence of knowledge and skills gained through participation in a worldwide 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 helping with a number of brief and longer-term quality placement programs 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 variety of personnel trained in the UK and through development ethical make, find out, return programs in the NHS across a variety of crucial occupations, specialties and locations.

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

HEE supports specialists through their preparation for language and proficiency tests; entry onto the UK professional register; visa application', and through a detailed programme 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 health care specialists who would like to work in the NHS.

These videos information further details about the program

To obtain 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) partnerships.

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

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

We develop HRH system ability 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 seminars, service visits and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper expedition of HRH challenges and interventions, through the assistance of premium strategic analysis, diagnostics and guidance with NHS specialists.

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

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.

To learn more contact 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 specialty training in England, offering the prospects a complete duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have completed the programme they go back to their sponsor country to put their skills into practice, leading in service arrangement in their chosen field.

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