Global Health Partnerships

Global collaborations are in our national interest. The NHS is increasingly engaging in worldwide health work, with growing interest from NHS staff for abroad learning chances and an increasing need for NHS knowledge and services internationally.

HEE has legal responsibility to ensure that our future workforce is available in the best numbers and has the needed abilities, values and behaviours to meet clients' requirements and deliver high quality care. As the NHS workforce organisation for England, HEE is distinctively put to support the NHS to become a global centre of excellence for labor force development. HEE can do this by embedding worldwide skills, learning and development, supporting local NHS organisations to participate in global activity as a way to attract and maintain staff, bringing experienced overseas personnel to work in the NHS on placements and likewise by playing a facilitative role to guarantee the collective efforts and competence of the NHS is coordinated and aligned to the abroad objectives of Government departments including FCDO and DHSC.

Our work

HEE has actually been dealing with a number of countries, responding to requests for assistance on workforce development, producing placements for professional groups, matching NHS labor force require with abroad training requirements and looking for new bilateral relationships to enhance labor force advancement in the NHS and overseas.

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

Examples of our jobs and programs

International Volunteering

HEE is mandated by the government to support NHS volunteering, which includes supporting and encouraging NHS personnel to take benefit of volunteering opportunities within health and social care and dealing with senior functional management to increase recognition of the value of volunteering. HEE chairs the global NHS Volunteering Group which combines stakeholders associated with helping with and supporting overseas positionings, and offering of NHS staff overseas. HEE has actually also led advancement of an NHS global volunteering platform to display and signpost to details and chances, provide a repository of information and resources on global offering and connect applicants with potential hosts.

HEE has likewise established resources including guidance for those thinking about abroad placements (Health Education England Guidance for Trainees Planning to Volunteer or Work Overseas) and a toolkit for those on abroad placements to support collection of proof of knowledge and skills gotten through participation in a worldwide 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 positioning programmes for specialists to work and learn in the NHS. As part of its government required, HEE is working to attend to identified scarcities in the NHS by increasing the variety of staff trained in the UK and through development ethical earn, learn, return programs in the NHS throughout a variety of essential occupations, specializeds and locations.