Global Health Partnerships

Global collaborations are in our national interest. The NHS is progressively appealing in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for overseas knowing opportunities and an increasing demand for NHS knowledge and services internationally.

HEE has legal responsibility to ensure that our future labor force is readily available in the ideal numbers and has the needed skills, worths and behaviours to satisfy clients’ needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is distinctively put to support the NHS to end up being an international centre of excellence for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding international skills, finding out and innovation, supporting regional NHS organisations to participate in worldwide activity as a method to draw in and maintain staff, bringing experienced overseas staff to work in the NHS on positionings and likewise by playing a facilitative role to make sure the cumulative efforts and competence of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the overseas goals of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

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

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

Examples of our projects and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the federal government to support NHS volunteering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to benefit from volunteering opportunities within health and social care and dealing with senior functional management to increase recognition of the worth of volunteering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with assisting in and supporting abroad placements, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually likewise led development of an NHS worldwide offering platform to showcase and signpost to information and opportunities, provide a repository of information and resources on global offering and link applicants with prospective hosts.

HEE has also established resources including guidance 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 placements to support collection of proof of understanding and abilities acquired through involvement in an international 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 helping with a variety of short and longer-term quality placement programmes for specialists to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to address determined lacks in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through development ethical make, find out, return programmes in the NHS throughout a number of essential professions, specializeds and locations.

The ambition is to develop a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of friends arriving and returning each year. HEE is developing longer-term relationships with ‘in-country’ partners to identify top quality skilled prospects and support their journey into the program

HEE supports experts through their preparation for language and competency tests; entry onto the UK expert register; visa application’, and through an extensive programme of pastoral care, consisting of cultural sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are working with a variety of NHS Trusts to provide placement opportunities, and we are excited to hear from registered health care specialists who want to work in the NHS.

These videos detail further info about the programme

To obtain the programme please complete the application kind via the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration team facilitates system-to-system Human Resources for Health (HRH) partnerships.

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

We assist build more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and globally, in order to maximise chances and address shared difficulties.

We construct HRH system capability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS specialists for knowledge-sharing on specific policy obstacles, based upon NHS knowledge and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or practically through interactive workshops, service visits and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper exploration of HRH challenges and interventions, through the assistance of top quality strategic analysis, diagnostics and suggestions with NHS professionals.

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

As HEE is funded by the UK government to support NHS personnel and patients, all international technical cooperations 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 specialized training is truly world class. IPGMTS intends to supply medical specialized training in England, giving the prospects a full duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have finished the program they go back to their sponsor country to put their skills into practice, leading in service provision in their selected field.

IPGMTS trainees are sponsored by abroad governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK’s medical workforce needs. They complement British trainees on existing training programs. Places are restricted and only open through government to federal government contracts.