Global partnerships remain in our national interest. The NHS is significantly engaging in global health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for overseas knowing opportunities and an increasing demand for NHS know-how and services internationally.

HEE has legal duty to ensure that our future labor force is available in the best numbers and has the needed skills, worths and behaviours to meet patients' requirements and provide high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is uniquely positioned to support the NHS to end up being a worldwide centre of excellence for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding worldwide abilities, discovering and development, supporting local NHS organisations to take part in global activity as a way to attract and keep personnel, bringing knowledgeable overseas personnel to operate in the NHS on positionings and likewise by playing a facilitative role to ensure the cumulative efforts and competence of the NHS is collaborated and lined up to the abroad goals of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a variety of nations, reacting to requests for support on workforce development, creating placements for professional groups, matching NHS workforce require with overseas training requirements and seeking out brand-new bilateral relationships to strengthen workforce in the NHS and overseas.

Take an appearance at our international microsites for more details, 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, which consists of supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to make the most of volunteering chances within health and social care and working with senior operational leadership to increase acknowledgment of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting abroad placements, and offering of NHS personnel overseas. HEE has actually likewise led advancement of an NHS international volunteering platform to display and signpost to information and chances, offer a repository of info and resources on international volunteering and link applicants with potential hosts.

HEE has actually likewise developed resources consisting of guidance for those interested in abroad placements (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 abilities gained 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 facilitating a variety of brief and longer-term quality positioning programmes for specialists to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its government mandate, HEE is working to attend to identified lacks in the NHS by increasing the variety of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical earn, find out, return programs in the NHS throughout a variety of essential occupations, specializeds and locations.

The aspiration is to create a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of cohorts getting here and returning each year. HEE is developing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to recognize top quality experienced candidates and support their journey into the programme

HEE supports specialists through their preparation for language and competency tests; entry onto the UK professional 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 provide positioning chances, and we are excited to speak with registered healthcare professionals who want to work in the NHS.

These videos detail more details about the programme