Global collaborations are in our national interest. The NHS is significantly interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for overseas learning opportunities and an increasing demand for NHS knowledge and services worldwide.

HEE has legislative responsibility to ensure that our future workforce is offered in the ideal numbers and has the required abilities, values and behaviours to meet patients' needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is distinctively put to support the NHS to become an international centre of quality for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding worldwide skills, finding out and development, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in worldwide activity as a method to bring in and maintain staff, bringing skilled overseas personnel to operate in the NHS on placements and also by playing a to ensure the cumulative efforts and know-how of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the overseas objectives of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a variety of countries, responding to demands for support on labor force development, producing placements for expert groups, matching NHS labor force require with abroad training requirements and looking for new bilateral relationships to strengthen labor force advancement in the NHS and overseas.

Take a look at our worldwide microsites for more information, 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 volunteering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to benefit from volunteering chances within health and social care and working with senior operational management to increase acknowledgment of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders included in facilitating and supporting overseas positionings, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has also led development of an NHS worldwide offering platform to showcase and signpost to details and opportunities, provide a repository of information and resources on worldwide volunteering and connect applicants with prospective hosts.

HEE has likewise developed resources consisting of guidance for those thinking about 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 evidence of understanding and skills gained through participation 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 number of brief and longer-term quality placement programs for professionals to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its federal government required, HEE is working to attend to identified scarcities in the NHS by increasing the variety of staff trained in the UK and through development ethical earn, learn, return programs in the NHS throughout a number of essential professions, specialties and locations.

The ambition is to create 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 high-quality experienced candidates and support their journey into the program

HEE supports professionals through their preparation for language and proficiency tests; entry onto the UK expert register; visa application', and through an extensive program of pastoral care, including cultural sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are dealing with a number of NHS Trusts to offer positioning opportunities, and we are eager to speak with registered healthcare experts who wish to work in the NHS.

These videos information more details about the program

To request the program please complete the application type through 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 expand Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

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

We construct HRH system capability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS professionals for knowledge-sharing on particular policy difficulties, based on NHS know-how and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or essentially through interactive workshops, service sees and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper exploration of HRH difficulties and interventions, through the facilitation of top quality tactical analysis, diagnostics and advice with NHS professionals.

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

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

For more information get in touch 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 intends to offer medical specialty training in England, giving the candidates a full replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have actually completed the programme they return to their sponsor nation to put their abilities into practice, leading in service arrangement in their chosen field.

IPGMTS trainees are sponsored by abroad governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical labor force needs. They match British students on existing training programs. Places are restricted and just open through government to government contracts.