Global partnerships remain in our nationwide interest. The NHS is significantly appealing in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad learning chances and an increasing need for NHS know-how and services worldwide.

HEE has legal obligation to ensure that our future workforce is readily available in the right numbers and has the needed skills, values and behaviours to meet clients' needs and provide high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is uniquely positioned to support the NHS to become an international centre of quality for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding global abilities, finding out and development, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in worldwide activity as a way to draw in and retain personnel, bringing skilled abroad staff to work in the NHS on placements and also by playing a facilitative role to guarantee the collective efforts and competence of the NHS is coordinated and lined up to the overseas goals of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a variety of nations, reacting to ask for assistance on labor force advancement, producing positionings for professional groups, matching NHS labor force need with abroad training requirements and seeking out new bilateral relationships to reinforce workforce development in the NHS and overseas.

Have a look 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 government to support NHS volunteering, that includes supporting and motivating NHS staff to take benefit of volunteering opportunities within health and social care and working with senior functional management to increase acknowledgment of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which brings together stakeholders included in facilitating and supporting abroad positionings, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has also led development of an NHS worldwide volunteering platform to showcase and signpost to information and opportunities, provide a repository of info and resources on global volunteering and link applicants with potential hosts.

HEE has actually also established resources including guidance 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 gotten through participation in a global health job ( 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 specialists to work and discover in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to deal with recognized lacks in the NHS by increasing the number of personnel trained in the UK and through development ethical earn, find out, return programmes in the NHS throughout a number of crucial professions, specializeds and geographies.

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

HEE supports experts through their preparation for language and proficiency tests; entry onto the UK professional register; visa application', and through a comprehensive program of pastoral care, including cultural level of sensitivities, prior to and on arrival.

We are dealing with a variety of NHS Trusts to provide positioning opportunities, and we aspire to speak with signed up healthcare professionals who would like to operate in the NHS.

These videos information further information about the programme

To get the programme please complete the application through the online applicant tracking system.

Global Technical Collaboration Consultancy Services

The Technical Collaboration group helps with system-to-system Human Resources for Health (HRH) collaborations.

We support health system enhancing for international partners and the NHS, in order to broaden Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC).

We assist develop more durable and sustainable health systems in the NHS and internationally, in order to maximise opportunities and address shared difficulties.

We build HRH system ability through:

Knowledge Exchange
Access to NHS professionals for knowledge-sharing on particular policy challenges, based on NHS know-how and experience. Hosted in the UK, in-country or essentially through interactive workshops, service check outs and speaking engagements.

Strategic Advice
Collaborative much deeper exploration of HRH challenges and interventions, through the assistance of premium tactical analysis, diagnostics and recommendations with NHS experts.

Implementation Support
Defined partnership-working with NHS specialists for strategic advice on the style and execution of programs and policy interventions, including technical review and quality control

As HEE is funded by the UK government to support NHS staff and patients, all international technical partnerships are funded on a fee-paying not-for-profit basis.

To learn more connect with ge@hee.nhs.uk.

International Postgraduate Medical Training Scheme (IPGMTS)