Global Health Partnerships

Global partnerships remain in our national interest. The NHS is progressively interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad knowing chances and an increasing demand for NHS competence and services worldwide.

HEE has legal duty to guarantee that our future workforce is available in the best numbers and has the essential skills, values and behaviours to fulfill patients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is distinctively positioned to support the NHS to end up being an international centre of excellence for workforce development. HEE can do this by embedding international skills, learning and development, supporting regional NHS organisations to participate in international activity as a method to draw in and retain personnel, bringing knowledgeable overseas staff to work 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 goals of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has been dealing with a variety of nations, responding to ask for assistance on workforce advancement, producing placements for expert groups, matching NHS labor force need with overseas training requirements and looking for new bilateral relationships to reinforce labor force development in the NHS and overseas.

Take a look at our international microsites to learn more, 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 make the most of offering chances within health and social care and dealing with senior functional leadership to increase recognition of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders associated with assisting in and supporting overseas placements, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has also led development of an NHS worldwide offering platform to display and signpost to info and chances, offer a repository of info and resources on international offering and link applicants with possible hosts.

HEE has also developed resources consisting of assistance for those interested in overseas placements (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on overseas positionings to support collection of proof of knowledge and abilities acquired through involvement in a worldwide health task (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 positioning programmes for to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to deal with determined lacks in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical earn, learn, return programmes in the NHS across a number of essential occupations, specializeds and locations.

The aspiration is to produce a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of friends getting here and returning each year. HEE is producing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to identify high-quality experienced candidates and support their journey into the programme

HEE supports experts through their preparation for language and competency tests; entry onto the UK professional register; visa application', and through a thorough program of pastoral care, consisting of cultural sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are dealing with a number of NHS Trusts to offer placement chances, and we aspire to speak with signed up healthcare specialists who want to operate in the NHS.

These videos detail additional information about the programme

To use for the program please total the application through the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration group facilitates 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 build more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and globally, in order to increase opportunities and address shared challenges.

We develop HRH system ability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS specialists for knowledge-sharing on particular policy challenges, based on NHS competence and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or practically through interactive workshops, service check outs and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper exploration of HRH difficulties and interventions, through the assistance of high-quality tactical analysis, diagnostics and advice with NHS specialists.

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

As HEE is funded by the UK federal government to support NHS staff and patients, 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 specialized training is really world class. IPGMTS aims to offer medical specialty training in England, giving the prospects a full duplication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have completed the programme they return to their sponsor country to put their abilities into practice, leading in service arrangement in their picked field.

IPGMTS students are sponsored by overseas federal governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical labor force requirements. They match British students on existing training programmes. Places are minimal and just open through federal government to government agreements.