Overview
Health Education England (HEE) has merged with NHS England.
This means that NHS England has assumed responsibility for all activities previously undertaken by Health Education England. This includes planning, recruiting, educating and training the health workforce, ensuring that the healthcare workforce has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours in place to support the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to patients and the public.
This follows the merger of NHS Digital with NHS England on the 1 February 2023. The systems and services, functions, processes and structures of Health Education England will continue to operate as normal, and contracts will automatically transfer to NHS England, with terms and conditions unchanged.
Without a skilled workforce there is no NHS. There are few careers that are as rewarding as one in the NHS, or that give you the opportunity to work with such a variety of people. Each and every one can make a difference to patients.
More than 160,000 students are studying to be part of their future workforce. That includes doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, physiotherapists and many more roles - in fact there are over 300 different jobs performed by more than one million people in the NHS.
The vision of NHSE is to provide the right workforce, with the right skills and values, in the right place, at the right time, to better meet the needs and wants of patients - now and in the future.
Any reference to HEE throughout this page is reflective of the organisation title at the time of the item being published.
The NHS Long-Term Plan
The first comprehensive workforce plan for the NHS, putting staffing on a sustainable footing and improving patient care. It focuses on retaining existing talent and making the best use of new technology alongside the biggest recruitment drive in health service history.
Health Education England has published an infographic to demonstrate to employers and workforce planners, how Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), the third-largest workforce in the NHS, can make a unique contribution to learning disability services. The information was co-designed with the AHP Mental Health and Learning Disability Observatory.
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Health Careers
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The NHS belongs to the people and is founded on a common set of principles and values that bind together the communities and people it serves - patients and public - and the staff who work for it.
This is called The NHS Constitution for England.
This Constitution establishes the principles and values of the NHS in England.
It sets out rights to which patients, public and staff are entitled, and pledges that which the NHS is committed to achieve, together with responsibilities, which the public, patients and staff owe to one another to ensure that the NHS operates fairly and effectively.
NHS values
Patients, public and staff have helped develop this expression of values that inspire passion in the NHS and that should underpin everything it does. Individual organisations will develop and build upon these values, tailoring them to their local needs. The NHS values provide common ground for co-operation to achieve shared aspirations, at all levels of the NHS.
Working Together for Patients
Compassion
Respect & Dignity
Improving Lives
Commitment to Quality of Care
Everyone Counts
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