Global partnerships are in our national interest. The NHS is significantly interesting in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad learning chances and an increasing demand for NHS competence and services globally.

HEE has legal obligation to guarantee that our future workforce is readily available in the right numbers and has the needed abilities, worths and behaviours to meet clients' needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is uniquely placed to support the NHS to become an international centre of excellence for workforce development. HEE can do this by embedding global skills, discovering and innovation, supporting local NHS organisations to engage in as a method to draw in and maintain staff, bringing knowledgeable overseas personnel to operate in the NHS on positionings and also by playing a facilitative function to ensure the cumulative efforts and proficiency of the NHS is collaborated and lined up to the abroad objectives of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a number of nations, reacting to requests for support on labor force development, developing placements for expert groups, matching NHS workforce need with overseas training requirements and looking for brand-new bilateral relationships to enhance labor force development in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our worldwide microsites for more info, 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 make the most of volunteering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior operational leadership to increase recognition of the worth of offering. HEE chairs the worldwide NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting abroad positionings, and volunteering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually also led advancement of an NHS global volunteering platform to display and signpost to details and opportunities, provide a repository of information and resources on global volunteering and connect candidates with potential hosts.

HEE has also established resources consisting of assistance for those interested in overseas 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 skills gained through involvement 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 facilitating a number of short and longer-term quality placement programs for experts to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its government mandate, HEE is working to attend to determined shortages in the NHS by increasing the variety of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical earn, learn, return programmes in the NHS throughout a variety of key occupations, specializeds and geographies.

The ambition is to produce a circular programme with a sustainable pipeline of associates arriving and returning each year. HEE is producing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to recognize top quality skilled prospects and support their journey into the program

HEE supports professionals through their preparation for language and competency tests