Global Health Partnerships

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

HEE has legislative responsibility to guarantee that our future workforce is readily available in the right numbers and has the needed abilities, worths and behaviours to meet clients' requirements and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is uniquely placed to support the NHS to become a worldwide centre of quality for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding worldwide abilities, finding out and development, supporting local NHS organisations to take part in global activity as a way to draw in and maintain staff, bringing experienced overseas personnel to operate in the NHS on placements and likewise by playing a facilitative function to guarantee the cumulative efforts and know-how of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the abroad goals of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a number of countries, reacting to requests for support on workforce development, developing positionings for expert groups, matching NHS workforce need with abroad training requirements and looking for out brand-new bilateral relationships to enhance workforce advancement 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, which consists of supporting and motivating NHS staff to make the most of volunteering opportunities within health and social care and dealing with senior operational management to increase acknowledgment of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders involved in facilitating and supporting overseas positionings, and offering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has also led development of an NHS international offering platform to display and signpost to details and opportunities, provide a repository of information and resources on worldwide volunteering and link applicants with potential hosts.

HEE has actually also developed resources consisting of assistance for those thinking about overseas 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 gotten through involvement in a global 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 variety of short and longer-term quality positioning programs for experts to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to resolve identified lacks in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through development ethical earn, find out, return programs in the NHS across a number of crucial occupations, specialties and locations.

The ambition is to develop a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of accomplices showing up and returning each year. HEE is producing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to determine top quality knowledgeable candidates and their journey into the program

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

We are working with a number of NHS Trusts to use positioning opportunities, and we aspire to hear from registered health care professionals who want to operate in the NHS.

These videos information additional info about the programme

To request the program please total the application kind by means of the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

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

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

We help build more resistant and sustainable health systems in the NHS and internationally, in order to increase chances and address shared difficulties.

We develop HRH system ability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative deeper expedition of HRH obstacles and interventions, through the assistance of high-quality strategic analysis, diagnostics and suggestions with NHS specialists.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS experts for strategic guidance on the style and application of programs and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality control

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

To find out more 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 specialized training is really world class. IPGMTS intends to offer medical specialized training in England, giving the candidates a full replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the prospects have finished the program 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 overseas federal governments or organizations and are supernumerary to the UK's medical workforce needs. They match British trainees on existing training programs. Places are restricted and just open via government to government contracts.