Barclay believes thousands of health professionals will come as a result of new rules making it easier for medical regulators to register those who have qualified abroad, in countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, the Philippines and Malaysia.
But critics claim the policy is a stopgap and no substitute for ramping up the supply of homegrown staff, and risks worsening the lack of health workers in countries that are struggling with shortages of their own.
The initiative comes days after new figures showed that the number of unfilled posts in the NHS in England jumped by over 25,000 earlier this year to a record 132,139 - 10% of the workforce.
Brexit has greatly reduced the number of nurses coming from the EU to work in the NHS. Meanwhile, the number of health workers from outside the EU has soared, although not by enough to make up the shortfall.
Barclay, NHS England and organisations representing health service personnel are worried that shortages of staff are extending patients' waits for care and increasing the risk that some services will fail this winter.
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