Global Health Partnerships

Global partnerships remain in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly appealing in international health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad and an increasing need for NHS know-how and services worldwide.

HEE has legislative obligation to ensure that our future labor force is offered in the best numbers and has the required abilities, worths and behaviours to satisfy patients’ needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is uniquely positioned to support the NHS to become a global centre of excellence for workforce development. HEE can do this by embedding global skills, learning and innovation, supporting local NHS organisations to take part in global activity as a way to bring in and retain personnel, bringing skilled overseas personnel to operate in the NHS on positionings and also by playing a facilitative role to ensure the collective efforts and competence of the NHS is collaborated and lined up to the overseas goals of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has been working with a variety of countries, reacting to ask for assistance on workforce advancement, creating positionings for professional groups, matching NHS labor force need with abroad training requirements and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to strengthen workforce development in the NHS and overseas.

Take an appearance at our global microsites for additional information, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our tasks and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the government to support NHS offering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS staff to benefit from volunteering chances within health and social care and dealing with senior functional management to increase acknowledgment of the worth of offering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders associated with assisting in and supporting overseas placements, and volunteering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has likewise led development of an NHS international offering platform to showcase and signpost to info and opportunities, offer a repository of information and resources on international volunteering and connect candidates with potential hosts.

HEE has likewise developed resources consisting of guidance for those thinking about abroad positionings (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on abroad placements to support collection of evidence of understanding and skills gained through participation in an international health job (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 short and longer-term quality positioning programmes for experts to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to resolve identified scarcities in the NHS by increasing the number of staff trained in the UK and through advancement ethical earn, find out, return programmes in the NHS across a number of crucial professions, specialties and geographies.

The ambition is to create a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of friends arriving and returning each year. HEE is developing longer-term relationships with ‘in-country’ partners to determine high-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, including cultural sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are working with a number of NHS Trusts to use placement chances, and we aspire to speak with signed up healthcare professionals who wish to work in the NHS.

These videos detail additional information about the program

To make an application for the program please total the application 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 global partners and the NHS, in order to expand Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

We assist construct more resilient and sustainable health systems in the NHS and internationally, in order to increase chances and address shared obstacles.

We develop HRH system capability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS specialists for knowledge-sharing on particular policy difficulties, based upon NHS knowledge and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or practically through interactive seminars, service sees and speaking engagements.

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

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS experts for strategic advice on the design and application of programmes and policy interventions, consisting of technical review and quality assurance

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

To find out more contact 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 really world class. IPGMTS intends to supply medical specialized training in England, providing the prospects a complete replication of NHS competence-based training. Once the candidates have finished the programme they return to their sponsor nation to put their skills into practice, leading in service arrangement in their selected field.

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