Global Health Partnerships

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

HEE has legal duty to ensure that our future workforce is readily available in the ideal numbers and has the essential skills, values and behaviours to satisfy patients’ needs and provide 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 worldwide skills, learning and development, supporting local NHS organisations to take part in international activity as a method to bring in and maintain staff, bringing experienced abroad personnel to operate in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative function to make sure the collective efforts and expertise of the NHS is collaborated and aligned to the abroad objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a variety of nations, reacting to demands for assistance on workforce advancement, developing placements for professional groups, matching NHS labor force need with overseas training and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to enhance labor force development in the NHS and overseas.

Take a look at our worldwide microsites for more details, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our tasks and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the federal government to support NHS offering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS staff to take benefit of volunteering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior functional management to increase acknowledgment of the worth of offering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders included in helping with and supporting overseas placements, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually also led development of an NHS worldwide offering platform to display and signpost to details and chances, provide a repository of details and resources on worldwide volunteering and link applicants with possible hosts.

HEE has actually also developed resources including guidance for those thinking about abroad placements (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on overseas placements to support collection of evidence of understanding and abilities acquired 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 facilitating a number of short and longer-term quality positioning programmes for experts to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its federal government required, HEE is working to address identified scarcities in the NHS by increasing the variety of personnel trained in the UK and through development ethical earn, find out, return programmes in the NHS across a variety of essential professions, specialties and geographies.

The aspiration is to create a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of mates arriving and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with ‘in-country’ partners to determine premium knowledgeable prospects and support their journey into the programme

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

We are working with a number of NHS Trusts to offer positioning chances, and we aspire to hear from registered healthcare specialists who wish to work in the NHS.

These videos information further info about the programme

To make an application for the programme please total the application kind through the online candidate 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 broaden Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

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

We construct HRH system ability through:

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

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper expedition of HRH difficulties and interventions, through the assistance of premium strategic analysis, diagnostics and recommendations with NHS professionals.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS experts for tactical guidance on the design and execution of programmes and policy interventions, consisting of technical evaluation and quality assurance

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

For more details 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 genuinely world class. IPGMTS aims to supply medical specialty training in England, giving the candidates a complete duplication 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 picked field.

IPGMTS students are sponsored by overseas federal governments or institutions and are supernumerary to the UK’s medical labor force requirements. They complement British students on existing training programmes. Places are limited and only open via federal government to government agreements.