Global partnerships remain in our nationwide interest. The NHS is increasingly appealing in international health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for overseas knowing chances and an increasing need for NHS competence and services worldwide.

HEE has legal obligation to ensure that our future workforce is offered in the ideal numbers and has the required abilities, worths and behaviours to fulfill clients’ requirements and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is distinctively placed to support the NHS to become a global centre of quality for workforce advancement. HEE can do this by embedding global abilities, finding out and innovation, supporting local NHS organisations to take part in international activity as a method to bring in and keep staff, bringing knowledgeable abroad staff to work in the NHS on placements and likewise by playing a facilitative function to guarantee the cumulative efforts and expertise 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 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 out new bilateral relationships to enhance workforce development in the NHS and overseas.

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

Examples of our projects and programmes

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the federal government to support NHS offering, which includes supporting and motivating NHS personnel to benefit from volunteering chances within health and social care and working with senior operational management to increase acknowledgment of the worth of offering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders involved in helping with and supporting abroad positionings, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has also led advancement of an NHS international volunteering platform to display and signpost to details and opportunities, offer a repository of information and resources on international volunteering and link candidates with possible hosts.

HEE has likewise developed resources including guidance for those interested in abroad 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 understanding and abilities gotten through involvement in a global 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 specialists to work and learn 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 staff trained in the UK and through development ethical earn, learn, return programmes in the NHS across a number of essential professions, specializeds and locations.

The aspiration is to a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of mates getting here and returning each year. HEE is developing longer-term relationships with ‘in-country’ partners to identify premium experienced candidates and support their journey into the programme

HEE supports professionals through their preparation for language and proficiency tests