Global Health Partnerships

Global collaborations remain in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly appealing in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad knowing chances and an increasing demand for NHS competence and services .

HEE has legislative responsibility to ensure that our future workforce is offered in the ideal numbers and has the required skills, values and behaviours to satisfy patients' needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is distinctively placed to support the NHS to become an international centre of quality for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding international skills, learning and innovation, supporting regional NHS organisations to take part in global activity as a method to draw in and keep personnel, bringing skilled abroad staff to operate in the NHS on positionings and also by playing a facilitative role to ensure the cumulative efforts and expertise of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the overseas goals of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a variety of countries, reacting to requests for support on labor force advancement, creating placements for professional groups, matching NHS workforce require with abroad training requirements and looking for new bilateral relationships to reinforce workforce development in the NHS and overseas.

Take an appearance at our worldwide microsites to learn more, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our jobs and programmes

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the government to support NHS offering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to take advantage of volunteering chances within health and social care and working with senior functional management to increase recognition of the worth of offering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders associated with facilitating and supporting abroad positionings, and volunteering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has likewise led advancement of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to showcase and signpost to info and chances, provide a repository of details and resources on worldwide volunteering and link candidates with potential 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 positionings to support collection of evidence 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 assisting in a number of brief and longer-term quality placement programs for experts to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to attend to recognized shortages in the NHS by increasing the number of staff trained in the UK and through advancement ethical earn, discover, return programmes in the NHS throughout a variety of essential professions, specializeds and geographies.

The aspiration is to produce a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of friends showing up and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to recognize premium skilled candidates and support their journey into the programme

HEE supports specialists through their preparation for language and competency tests; entry onto the UK expert register; visa application', and through a detailed programme of pastoral care, including cultural level of sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are working with a number of NHS Trusts to provide placement chances, and we aspire to hear from signed up health care experts who would like to work in the NHS.

These videos detail more information about the programme

To make an application for the programme please total the application kind by means of 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 international 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 globally, in order to maximise opportunities and address shared difficulties.

We construct HRH system capability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper exploration of HRH challenges 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 advice on the design and implementation of programs and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality assurance

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

For more information contact ge@hee.nhs.uk.

International Postgraduate Medical Training Scheme (IPGMTS)

With a long history supported by the Royal Colleges, the UK's medical specialized training is genuinely world class. IPGMTS intends to provide medical specialized training in England, giving the prospects a full duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have actually completed the programme they return to their sponsor country to put their abilities into practice, leading in service provision in their chosen field.

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