Frank Wood
@frankwoodunite1.bsky.social
Retired health worker and trade unionist
Lives in Scarborough with dad
Runs a bit
Lives in Scarborough with dad
Runs a bit
Scarborough looking very wintery today. Likely that dad will be staying indoors for most of the week.
January 3, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Scarborough looking very wintery today. Likely that dad will be staying indoors for most of the week.
Snow this morning and very windy. Managed to get a short walk and impressed that the local Sainsbury's staff had opened up, so picked up dad's paper.
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Snow this morning and very windy. Managed to get a short walk and impressed that the local Sainsbury's staff had opened up, so picked up dad's paper.
Happy New year.
Every year dad provides me with a calendar from his local history society. It is a source of great joy for the next 12 months.
Every year dad provides me with a calendar from his local history society. It is a source of great joy for the next 12 months.
January 1, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Happy New year.
Every year dad provides me with a calendar from his local history society. It is a source of great joy for the next 12 months.
Every year dad provides me with a calendar from his local history society. It is a source of great joy for the next 12 months.
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I ❤️ our NHS
We should never forget that behind the headlines of crisis, how important our NHS is, how committed the staff are, and how we need to nurture, treasure and invest in it. What a blessing it is for us all. ⤵️
We should never forget that behind the headlines of crisis, how important our NHS is, how committed the staff are, and how we need to nurture, treasure and invest in it. What a blessing it is for us all. ⤵️
December 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I ❤️ our NHS
We should never forget that behind the headlines of crisis, how important our NHS is, how committed the staff are, and how we need to nurture, treasure and invest in it. What a blessing it is for us all. ⤵️
We should never forget that behind the headlines of crisis, how important our NHS is, how committed the staff are, and how we need to nurture, treasure and invest in it. What a blessing it is for us all. ⤵️
Merry Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Merry Christmas
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No workers should have to tolerate discrimination or abuse. Migrant workers are doctors and nurses, cleaners, bus drivers, food workers, farm labourers and almost every other job you can think of. These workers, like all workers, must be treated with dignity and respect.
Racism in the workplace on the rise, finds new poll
MIGRANT workers experience appalling levels of racism and bigotry, a damning new union study found today as PM Sir Keir Starmer was slammed for sticking to draconian plans to make Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) harder to obtain.Unite is calling for the government to reverse track on its plans to reform the immigration system, including making permanent status even less accessible, which has meant greater exploitation for many migrant workers.
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
No workers should have to tolerate discrimination or abuse. Migrant workers are doctors and nurses, cleaners, bus drivers, food workers, farm labourers and almost every other job you can think of. These workers, like all workers, must be treated with dignity and respect.
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📹📢 Yesterday, hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers.
💜✊ Today, on #InternationalMigrantsDay, we recognise the migrant workers whose voices were at the heart of that lobby.
💜✊ Today, on #InternationalMigrantsDay, we recognise the migrant workers whose voices were at the heart of that lobby.
December 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📹📢 Yesterday, hundreds of overseas staff working in social care and the NHS travelled to Westminster to lobby MPs over plans to restrict visa rules for care workers.
💜✊ Today, on #InternationalMigrantsDay, we recognise the migrant workers whose voices were at the heart of that lobby.
💜✊ Today, on #InternationalMigrantsDay, we recognise the migrant workers whose voices were at the heart of that lobby.
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🪧 STRIKE | Yorkshire Airedale NHS microbiology
Airedale trust’s leadership are treating these workers appallingly. Not only are they being underpaid but now the trust expects them to take on out of hours work on top of their already considerable workloads.
Airedale trust’s leadership are treating these workers appallingly. Not only are they being underpaid but now the trust expects them to take on out of hours work on top of their already considerable workloads.
Airedale hospital staff set to strike
Workers at Airedale Hospital set to walk out in a row over pay and work conditions.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🪧 STRIKE | Yorkshire Airedale NHS microbiology
Airedale trust’s leadership are treating these workers appallingly. Not only are they being underpaid but now the trust expects them to take on out of hours work on top of their already considerable workloads.
Airedale trust’s leadership are treating these workers appallingly. Not only are they being underpaid but now the trust expects them to take on out of hours work on top of their already considerable workloads.
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🚨 Dispute has escalated after trust tries to union bust by threatening to not pay nurses on days they are working
@unitesharon.bsky.social: “The trust’s threats to not pay the nurses are a disgrace and will not go unchallenged."
Full story 👉 loom.ly/79-hIt0
#UniteNEYH
@unitesharon.bsky.social: “The trust’s threats to not pay the nurses are a disgrace and will not go unchallenged."
Full story 👉 loom.ly/79-hIt0
#UniteNEYH
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨 Dispute has escalated after trust tries to union bust by threatening to not pay nurses on days they are working
@unitesharon.bsky.social: “The trust’s threats to not pay the nurses are a disgrace and will not go unchallenged."
Full story 👉 loom.ly/79-hIt0
#UniteNEYH
@unitesharon.bsky.social: “The trust’s threats to not pay the nurses are a disgrace and will not go unchallenged."
Full story 👉 loom.ly/79-hIt0
#UniteNEYH
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“The physical and emotional toll is immense.”
Featuring direct accounts from nursing staff, our recent report outlines the rise of violence against staff & health facilities in war zones and areas of conflict.
Read our calls for urgent international action in full ➡️ https://bit.ly/46PRjB6
Featuring direct accounts from nursing staff, our recent report outlines the rise of violence against staff & health facilities in war zones and areas of conflict.
Read our calls for urgent international action in full ➡️ https://bit.ly/46PRjB6
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“The physical and emotional toll is immense.”
Featuring direct accounts from nursing staff, our recent report outlines the rise of violence against staff & health facilities in war zones and areas of conflict.
Read our calls for urgent international action in full ➡️ https://bit.ly/46PRjB6
Featuring direct accounts from nursing staff, our recent report outlines the rise of violence against staff & health facilities in war zones and areas of conflict.
Read our calls for urgent international action in full ➡️ https://bit.ly/46PRjB6
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📢 Overseas recruitment of nurses and midwives has fallen by almost 50%, putting NHS services at serious risk.
UNISON warns that government immigration changes are damaging staffing levels and calls for urgent action.
Read more here ➡️ unsn.uk/4rU0YiC
UNISON warns that government immigration changes are damaging staffing levels and calls for urgent action.
Read more here ➡️ unsn.uk/4rU0YiC
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
📢 Overseas recruitment of nurses and midwives has fallen by almost 50%, putting NHS services at serious risk.
UNISON warns that government immigration changes are damaging staffing levels and calls for urgent action.
Read more here ➡️ unsn.uk/4rU0YiC
UNISON warns that government immigration changes are damaging staffing levels and calls for urgent action.
Read more here ➡️ unsn.uk/4rU0YiC
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Hidden scandal of NHS staff exposed to cancer-causing chemical deemed the ‘next asbestos’ www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
Hidden scandal of NHS staff exposed to cancer-causing chemical deemed ‘next asbestos’
Exclusive: Staff have been left disabled, suffering from severe asthma, and forced out of their jobs as the NHS and UK regulators fail to protect thousands from a toxic cancer-linked chemical. Rebecca...
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hidden scandal of NHS staff exposed to cancer-causing chemical deemed the ‘next asbestos’ www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Poet Philip Larkin died on this day 1985, aged 63. To DJ Enright, 1955: 'I wish I could think of one nice thing I could tell you about Hull. Oh yes … it’s very nice and flat for cycling.' Photo outside the University of Hull, 1979, by Jane Bown.
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Poet Philip Larkin died on this day 1985, aged 63. To DJ Enright, 1955: 'I wish I could think of one nice thing I could tell you about Hull. Oh yes … it’s very nice and flat for cycling.' Photo outside the University of Hull, 1979, by Jane Bown.
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The Telegraph on the Budget: Does anyone come out better off? Surprisingly, yes – state pensioners, people on benefits and low-paid workers all come out as winners.
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Telegraph on the Budget: Does anyone come out better off? Surprisingly, yes – state pensioners, people on benefits and low-paid workers all come out as winners.
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🚨| Plans to double the Indefinite Leave to Remain qualifying period from five to 10 years will only deepen uncertainty and financial hardship for internationally educated nursing staff.
Ministers must scrap these plans which will only worsen the staffing crisis and put patients at risk. ⬇️
Ministers must scrap these plans which will only worsen the staffing crisis and put patients at risk. ⬇️
Almost 50,000 nursing staff could leave UK under proposed new visa rules, RCN warns | News | Royal College of Nursing
We’re urging ministers to scrap plans to double the Indefinite Leave to Remain qualifying period, which could deepen the staffing crisis and put patient care at risk
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🚨| Plans to double the Indefinite Leave to Remain qualifying period from five to 10 years will only deepen uncertainty and financial hardship for internationally educated nursing staff.
Ministers must scrap these plans which will only worsen the staffing crisis and put patients at risk. ⬇️
Ministers must scrap these plans which will only worsen the staffing crisis and put patients at risk. ⬇️
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Time stands still with Stop All the Clocks, a selection of W.H. Auden's dazzling poems of love, loss and heartbreak.
Out today. linktr.ee/StopAllTheClocks ⏰
Out today. linktr.ee/StopAllTheClocks ⏰
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Time stands still with Stop All the Clocks, a selection of W.H. Auden's dazzling poems of love, loss and heartbreak.
Out today. linktr.ee/StopAllTheClocks ⏰
Out today. linktr.ee/StopAllTheClocks ⏰
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The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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I genuinely despair at the state of the Labour government.
The proposed asylum seeker policy is totally alien to the party's internationalist values and the wishes of the membership.
The proposed asylum seeker policy is totally alien to the party's internationalist values and the wishes of the membership.
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I genuinely despair at the state of the Labour government.
The proposed asylum seeker policy is totally alien to the party's internationalist values and the wishes of the membership.
The proposed asylum seeker policy is totally alien to the party's internationalist values and the wishes of the membership.
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𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗯𝘆𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
Following last night's extraordinary council meeting, UNISON says any changes to local structures must have proper funding behind them and protect the people delivering essential services.
Read more: unsn.uk/derbyshirelgr
Following last night's extraordinary council meeting, UNISON says any changes to local structures must have proper funding behind them and protect the people delivering essential services.
Read more: unsn.uk/derbyshirelgr
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗯𝘆𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
Following last night's extraordinary council meeting, UNISON says any changes to local structures must have proper funding behind them and protect the people delivering essential services.
Read more: unsn.uk/derbyshirelgr
Following last night's extraordinary council meeting, UNISON says any changes to local structures must have proper funding behind them and protect the people delivering essential services.
Read more: unsn.uk/derbyshirelgr
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📣 Five days of strike action in England starts today.
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
📣 Five days of strike action in England starts today.
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
These strikes could have been averted, if Wes Streeting had a credible pay and jobs offer for resident doctors in England to consider.
🪧 See you on the picket lines: www.bma.org.uk/rdpicketlines
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Resident doctors begin striking tomorrow.
There'll be regional and local pickets between 14-19 November, across England.
If you're planning on picketing or showing solidarity at a picket line, make sure you've read our guidance: www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #DoctorsStrike
There'll be regional and local pickets between 14-19 November, across England.
If you're planning on picketing or showing solidarity at a picket line, make sure you've read our guidance: www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #DoctorsStrike
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Resident doctors begin striking tomorrow.
There'll be regional and local pickets between 14-19 November, across England.
If you're planning on picketing or showing solidarity at a picket line, make sure you've read our guidance: www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #DoctorsStrike
There'll be regional and local pickets between 14-19 November, across England.
If you're planning on picketing or showing solidarity at a picket line, make sure you've read our guidance: www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #DoctorsStrike
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Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
"A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."
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Nursing staff dedicate their lives to caring for others, and too often they are faced with the most appalling hatred and intimidation.
The government must stop pandering to dangerous anti-migrant sentiments and employers must prioritise tackling racism. Staff have the right to be safe at work.
The government must stop pandering to dangerous anti-migrant sentiments and employers must prioritise tackling racism. Staff have the right to be safe at work.
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Nursing staff dedicate their lives to caring for others, and too often they are faced with the most appalling hatred and intimidation.
The government must stop pandering to dangerous anti-migrant sentiments and employers must prioritise tackling racism. Staff have the right to be safe at work.
The government must stop pandering to dangerous anti-migrant sentiments and employers must prioritise tackling racism. Staff have the right to be safe at work.
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Rally with us to support the Gloucestershire Phlebotomists’ fair pay fight ✊
📰Read and share our call to join 17 November in this weekend’s @mstaronline.bsky.social : morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rall...
✍️RSVP and join us in Gloucester: www.megaphone.org.uk/events/solid...
#StrikeMap
📰Read and share our call to join 17 November in this weekend’s @mstaronline.bsky.social : morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rall...
✍️RSVP and join us in Gloucester: www.megaphone.org.uk/events/solid...
#StrikeMap
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Rally with us to support the Gloucestershire Phlebotomists’ fair pay fight ✊
📰Read and share our call to join 17 November in this weekend’s @mstaronline.bsky.social : morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rall...
✍️RSVP and join us in Gloucester: www.megaphone.org.uk/events/solid...
#StrikeMap
📰Read and share our call to join 17 November in this weekend’s @mstaronline.bsky.social : morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rall...
✍️RSVP and join us in Gloucester: www.megaphone.org.uk/events/solid...
#StrikeMap
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