The government is reportedly working on plans to recruit thousands of foreign workers from countries such as India and the Philippines to fill shortages in the health and social services sectors. .
Foreign recruits are expected to be recruited "massively" as the medical service struggles to fill vacancies.
Nurses and other medical staff are needed before winter when services are under even greater pressure. According to The Times, Health Secretary Steve Barclay directed an international task force to accomplish this.
The minister decided that "international recruitment" was his one solution to the manpower shortage, according to documents on the new impetus for overseas workers seen by the newspaper.
A source told The Times that medical and nursing visas could be used to hire staff to fill some of the 160,000 vacancies.
"Having enough staff to deal with a difficult winter for the NHS and care is an absolute priority, and international Finding ways to drive positive adoption is part of that," they said.
"We welcome all ideas, including an online support hub, but we need to make sure they work. We need to do it now.”
Post-Brexit immigration regulations will allow European health workers to move to the UK, as requested and implemented by the UK government. It became more complicated and costly.
The problem is exacerbated by this year's slowdown in nursing degree completions, which trade unions warn will exacerbate the staffing crisis in health and social care.
The chief of the Royal College of Nursing, Pat Cullen, said figures released by Ucas on Thursday showed 1,560 fewer students could be admitted to courses than in 2021, a ``wrong move. "It's heading in that direction," he said.
Last year he passed 22,690, compared with 21,130 she passed nursing courses this year, according to RCN.
A dismal report last month found that continued staffing shortages in the NHS pose a serious risk to patient safety.
The bipartisan Health and Social Welfare Commission said England's health and social services were facing the "greatest workforce crisis in history" and that the government had the confidence to improve the situation. He said he had no strategy.
Projections call for an additional 475,000 jobs in health care and 490,000 in social services by the first half of the next decade.
Early Thursday, his Secretary of Education James Cleverly told his BBC Radio 4 Today programme: any time in my life.
"We are recruiting more doctors and nurses and training more local medical personnel."