Lisa du Plessis

BABCP Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and Registered Nurse, Specialist on TV Series #DrChristianWillSeeYouNow series 2 & 3 #DrChristianSpecialClinics

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

This is brilliant from Andrew Neil tearing through the BS on Burnham’s ridiculous “No 10 in the North”:

“He’s gone to Manchester to deliver this speech, to show that London doesn’t dominate everything and that he’s going to spread power around the country. But he’s not going to take questions because he’s got to get back to London, which is the capital and where the power is. It’s all performative nonsense.”

Says it all. Can’t face questions up North because he’s desperate to bolt back down South. The hypocrisy is unreal.

Neil slammed it as purely symbolic, admitted everything will still run through London, and finished by saying Burnham needs to “grow up” because jumping from Manchester mayor to PM is a totally different job.

Burnham ducks questions at every turn. He’s hiding from scrutiny for a reason. I’d love to see him sit down with @afneil, but we all know that will never happen. His premiership would be finished before it even started!

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@ItsEthanRay Why would the police release this? Absolutely terrible violation of that poor families’ grief and shock!

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@TomK_Brit1993 He is a classic dictator! UK is becoming a dictatorship- if you criticise certain policy, or laws- you go to jail.

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@Breaking57 @vickigulvinson is that you? #RHOC

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS MADE HER SIGN A GAG ORDER. PARLIAMENT PROMISED TO STOP IT. BOTH LIED.

Sue Allison was a breast radiographer at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (@UHMBT) for nearly two decades. In 2012, she reported a senior radiologist who was repeatedly failing to diagnose women with breast cancer.

Two of those women died from cancers that should have been caught.

What happened next is the NHS playbook, start to finish.
She was ostracised. Bullied. Pushed out of her department. Blacklisted across the NHS so thoroughly that job applications in hospitals as far away as Kingston triggered questions about her whistleblowing.

She described her reputation as "absolutely destroyed."

After 34 years in the profession, she will never work in it again.

In 2015, with no legal advice, she was pressured into signing not one but two NDAs. The trust used those agreements to try to stop her from ever bringing a claim against them.

An employment tribunal later ruled both NDAs void. The judge found she had a clear case of whistleblower detriment.

By 2019, her case had reached Parliament.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) personally cited Sue Allison's NDAs in the House of Commons and declared he was "determined to end" the injustice of gagging NHS whistleblowers.

The ban was never enforced. Six years later, it still hasn't been.

She eventually settled her detriment claim in 2020 for financial compensation after admitting she would have had to sell her house to fund a full tribunal.

The trust thanked her for raising concerns. The same trust that silenced her for eight years.

She wasn't done. She became a governor of the same trust, trying to hold it to account from the inside.

In May 2023, she resigned. The bullying culture, she said, had never changed.

Governors asking legitimate questions about patient safety were being suppressed and eventually dismissed.

This case runs from 2012 to 2023. Eleven years. Same trust. Same culture. Same result for the people who spoke up.

The Morecambe Bay maternity scandal. The urology cover-up. The disputed emails. Peter Duffy. And Sue Allison, running through all of it, trying to hold the line, watching the institution close ranks every time.

Sources: @ComputerWeekly, @BylineTimes, Lancaster Guardian, @IndexCensorship,

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺

None . Nada . Zip.

For the first time since records began!

How did this happen?

One word

VACCINES!!!!!

[Psychology Today @PsychToday]

New research suggests that when we choose AI over thinking for ourselves, we may be outsourcing the very cognitive work that made us smart in the first place. Is the convenience really worth the cognitive cost? https://t.co/MHpeBCIrBC

[Psychology Today @PsychToday]

The most emotionally intelligent people you know are probably also among the happiest, most satisfied people you know. They got that way because they consistently do these three things. https://t.co/ClOInmjzFZ

[Psychology Today @PsychToday]

Intrusive, deeply disturbing sexual thoughts are often misunderstood to be shameful, hidden desires. The truth is that it's much more likely they're a symptom of OCD. https://t.co/cCAIGbwxmU

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS DESTROYED A DOCTOR FOR TRYING TO SAVE LIVES

Dr Raj Mattu was a cardiologist at Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry. In 2001 he noticed something that should have been blindingly obvious to management: cramming five patients into a cardiac ward designed for four was killing people, because essential services like oxygen were being cut off.

He went to the @BBC. He named the problem. He tried to save lives.

Management's response was to suspend him in 2002 and then bury him under a deluge of around 200 complaints to the General Medical Council.

Not one. Not ten. Two hundred. Every single one was rejected.

A tribunal later found that a senior manager had openly said: "Don't worry, as far as Raj is concerned, we are not worried about a parking ticket, we want to get him off the road completely." The suspension arrived within weeks. @sharmilaxx

Dr Mattu suffered detriments on more than 25 separate occasions. NHS even hired private investigators to try to discredit him. A 2005 inquiry chaired by Andrew Stafford QC recommended he be reinstated. Management ignored it.

He was finally dismissed in 2010. The tribunal process ran for six months and produced a 400-page judgment. The total legal cost to the @NHS is estimated at over £11 million in taxpayers' money. Coventry Live All to silence one doctor who told the truth.

He was eventually awarded £1.22 million in compensation. The managers who orchestrated the campaign mostly remained in post. David Loughton, the CEO who oversaw the whole thing, is now a CBE.

I know a fraction of what Dr Mattu went through. In 2024 I was the target of 3 fabricated complaints. Three. And even that was enough to make me understand exactly how this weapon works. You do not need evidence. You just need volume, institutional backing, and the willingness to grind someone down for as long as it takes.

Dr Mattu said it best himself: the people who lost out most were the patients. For 13 years the trust prevented him from looking after them. And by doing so, they sent a message to every other NHS whistleblower: this is what happens if you speak up.

Nothing has changed.

Source: @guardian / @BBC / @lexology / @sharmilaxx

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@jamiemroberton What about the fact that she was in London with a friend whilst texting that? Or the fact he was out the country when texts were sent saying she was terrified. It does not make any sense. The evidence was presented in court.

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@Imperfecting_It Why have they not put him on iv drip for fluids? Gosh poor boy

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@jenrenee He’s had a face lift and eye surgery. It’s distorted him. Same as Renee zelwegger.

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@MReed67249 @CorbynSnap Same!!

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@MR_E_NIGMA79 @ClassicAdvertz Same- I remember it and would have been far too young in 1982. Could it have been re-released a few years later?

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@PiotrCzeslaw @OlenaRohoza Where are the adult children now?

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@luxemiaa Yes- we married at 23 and 21! It’s been 23 years and we have beautiful children, a wonderful life and would do it all again in a flash!

[Lisa du Plessis @cbtsunflower]

@ShaytanTruth @NadineDorries @GMB Just saw your profile. Waste of time talking to someone like you 😆😆😆.