Global partnerships are in our nationwide interest. The NHS is increasingly appealing in international health work, with growing interest from NHS personnel for abroad knowing opportunities and an increasing need for NHS know-how and services worldwide.

HEE has legal duty to make sure that our future labor force is readily available in the best numbers and has the needed skills, values and behaviours to satisfy patients' needs and deliver high quality care. As the NHS labor force organisation for England, HEE is uniquely positioned to support the NHS to become a global centre of quality for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding worldwide skills, learning and development, supporting regional NHS organisations to take part in global activity as a way to draw in and maintain staff, bringing skilled abroad staff to operate in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative function to guarantee the cumulative efforts and competence of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the overseas goals of Government departments consisting of FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been working with a number of countries, reacting to ask for support on labor force development, developing positionings for professional groups, matching NHS labor force need with abroad training requirements and seeking out brand-new bilateral relationships to strengthen labor force advancement in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look at our international microsites to find out more, Global Learning Opportunities and Technical Collaboration and Consultancy

Examples of our jobs and programmes

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the government to support NHS offering, that includes supporting and motivating NHS personnel to make the most of offering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior functional management to increase recognition of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the international NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders associated with facilitating and supporting abroad placements, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually likewise led development of an NHS worldwide offering platform to showcase and signpost to details and chances, supply a repository of information and resources on worldwide offering and connect applicants with possible hosts.

HEE has actually likewise developed resources consisting of guidance for those thinking about overseas positionings (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on overseas placements to support collection of proof of understanding and abilities gained through participation in a global 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 assisting in a number of short and longer-term quality placement programs for specialists to work and find out in the NHS. As part of its federal government mandate, HEE is working to address determined in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through advancement ethical earn, find out, return programs in the NHS throughout a variety of crucial professions, specializeds and locations.

The aspiration is to create a circular program with a sustainable pipeline of accomplices arriving and returning each year. HEE is developing longer-term relationships with 'in-country' partners to recognize premium skilled prospects and support their journey into the program

HEE supports professionals through their preparation for language and competency tests