Global partnerships are in our nationwide interest. The NHS is progressively interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for overseas learning chances and an increasing need for NHS proficiency and services internationally.

HEE has legislative obligation to ensure that our future workforce is available in the best numbers and has the required skills, worths and behaviours to satisfy clients' requirements and provide high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is uniquely put to support the NHS to end up being a worldwide centre of quality for labor force advancement. HEE can do this by embedding international abilities, finding out and development, supporting local NHS organisations to engage in worldwide activity as a method to attract and retain personnel, bringing knowledgeable abroad staff to work in the NHS on positionings and likewise by playing a facilitative role to guarantee the cumulative efforts and knowledge of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the overseas objectives of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

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

Have a look at our global 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 offering, that includes supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to make the most of volunteering chances within health and social care and working with senior operational management to increase recognition of the worth of volunteering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which unites stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting abroad placements, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has likewise led advancement of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to display and signpost to info and chances, supply a repository of details and resources on international offering and link applicants with possible hosts.

HEE has also established resources including assistance 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 skills gotten through participation in a worldwide 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 assisting in a number of brief and longer-term quality positioning programmes for experts to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its federal government mandate, HEE is working to deal with determined shortages in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical earn, learn, return programmes in the NHS throughout a variety of key professions, specializeds and locations.

The aspiration is to produce a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of associates showing up and returning each year. HEE is creating longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to determine top quality knowledgeable prospects and support their journey into the program

HEE supports professionals through their preparation for language and competency tests