What does HEE funding pay for?

HEE spends over £4bn a year educating and training the health workforce, this equates to over £11m every day to support about 170,000 learners.  

We part fund the salaries of postgraduate doctors in training. We invest in courses and continuing professional development for current staff. We pay clinical placement costs for all students. We provide back-fill and salary support payments for some professions. We spend to design courses, buy equipment, support learners and educators and deliver on-line education.  

The pipeline of learners we fund is the future NHS workforce, and each year thousands of new nurses, scientists, dentists, pharmacists, AHPs, and doctors join the NHS as a result and thousands of current health professionals learn and develop new knowledge and skills to help patients today. This is the single biggest health education and training budget in the world.  The HEE local offices & deaneries manage the training programmes as trainees progress through their training.