The NHS will work with parenting website Mumsnet to try and tempt former nurses back to work for the health service.
An online 'returning nurses' campaign has been launched on the message board as part of the NHS's People Plan which addresses how it will plug staff shortages.
There are almost 40,000 vacant nurse jobs in the UK and health bosses are now targeting already-qualified women on Mumsnet.
The People Plan was revealed with an admission the NHS needs to 'significantly increase' the number of staff it hires from abroad.
And Health Secretary Matt Hancock went a step further, suggesting he would scrap all immigration rules for doctors and nurses if made Prime Minister.
Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary and candidate for next Prime Minister, today said the UK should offer freedom of movement for people around the world who can get jobs at the NHS
A recruitment campaign is already under way on Mumsnet and encourages users to give their details to sign up to be sent information about how they could return to work for the NHS
An advert has already appeared on the Mumsnet homepage encouraging users to sign up for the NHS to contact them about back-to-work opportunities.
Another major component of the NHS's People Plan was a pledge to hire more people from abroad – something reiterated by Mr Hancock.
As long as someone can speak English, has the right qualification and has an NHS job lined up they should be allowed to move to the UK, Mr Hancock said this morning, according to The Guardian.
Around 144,000 out of the 1.2million people working in the NHS are from outside of the UK, with most of them coming from the European Union.
Some 5.6 per cent of NHS staff in England are from the EU, 4.3 per cent are from Asia, 1.9 per cent from Africa and 0.9 per cent from elsewhere in the world, according to a House of Commons research briefing in October.
Over the next year, the health service will set up connections with overseas recruitment agencies and find ways to streamline relocating foreign workers, it said.
'Our NHS could not provide its world-class service to patients without the hardworking doctors and nurses from other nations,' Mr Hancock said.
'That’s why I believe, after Brexit, we need to see the free movement of medics – doctors and nurses – from all around the world.'
The NHS is the fifth biggest employer in the world, with 1.5million staff, behind only the US Department of Defense, China's People's Liberation Army, Walmart and McDonald's.
Qualified clinical staff make up around half of the NHS staff. Around 1.1million people are full-time equivalent staff working in hospitals, ambulances and mental health units. Around 130,000 work in GP surgeries.
One in 12 jobs are vacant across the UK's hospitals.
Nursing and midwifery is the worst hit by staff shortages, with a
