 "Apollo Hospitals, UK-based public body sign MoU for education")
The collaboration aims to achieve a number of objectives including clinical rotation of Doctors, Nurses and Midwives and other health professionals, as well as undergraduate healthcare students through an exchange mechanism.
The possibility of establishing a 'global healthcare school' to ensure that opportunities for global learning are available to the current and future healthcare workforce of both countries is another aim.
The collaboration will also explore the feasibility of mutual accreditation of healthcare professional to allow a freer exchange of staff, which in turn will promote shared learning. Promotion of overseas volunteering and internships to provide international experience and learning through structured observerships and short-term placements are the other objectives of the collaboration, said a company announcement.
Prathap C Reddy, chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said; "This endeavour will help in augmenting quality of patient care to very high level not only in UK and India but in other parts."
Sir Keith Pearson, chair-HEE, said that through the collaboration it will be not only delivering our high quality medical education programs to the workforce in India but also in future, to workforce in other low and middle income countries of the region."
Health Education England (HEE) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health to provide national leadership and coordination for the education and training within the health and public health workforce within England. More than 160,000 students are studying to be part of the future workforce in over 300 types of jobs including doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, physiotherapists and many more roles.
