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Ishbel Straker

Consultant psychiatric nurse, runs a private addiction and mental health practice in Liverpool

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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 22 Dec 2025

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Ishbel Straker: key facts

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Clinician
Role
Consultant psychiatric nurse, runs a private addiction and mental health practice in Liverpool
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Quoted in the press
Most recently quoted
26 Dec 2025
First quoted
22 Dec 2025

04  The signal · where Ishbel Straker sits on medical ethics & regulation

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Quoted in the press on medical ethics & regulation.

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  1. Charlie Massey portraitCharlie MasseyRegulatorChief Executive and Registrar, General Medical CouncilLeading
  2. Dr Manjeet ShehmarClinicianMedical Director, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustLeading
  3. Arthur Caplan portraitArthur CaplanAcademicProfessor Emeritus and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine (NYU Langone Health)Leading
  4. Dominic Wilkinson portraitDominic WilkinsonAcademicProfessor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford; Deputy Director and Director of Medical Ethics, Uehiro Oxford Institute; Consultant in newborn intensive care, John Radcliffe Hospital, Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford
  5. Ellie LameySector leaderCriminal Injuries Compensation Authority specialist with SACA
  6. Ishbel StrakerClinicianConsultant psychiatric nurse, runs a private addiction and mental health practice in Liverpool
  7. Deborah HudsonClinicianNurse practitioner at a GP surgery; nurse of 24 years
  8. Dr Katie Bramall portraitDr Katie BramallUnionImmediate past chair, BMA GP Committee for England; Chair, BMA GP Committee UK, British Medical Association

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05  On the record · press

What Ishbel Straker has said

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  • lancs.live
  • liverpoolecho.co.uk

Where Ishbel Straker has been quoted

  1. 'We are living through a scandal the size of Post Office, it's like a terminal diagnosis' | Lancs Livelancs.live · 26 Dec 2025
  2. 'I think this is as big as the Post Office scandal. This is what we are living through' - Liverpool Echoliverpoolecho.co.uk · 22 Dec 2025

How we found the articles that name Ishbel Straker: we searched news for these terms.

  • medical ethics
  • General Medical Council
  • GMC
  • fitness to practise
  • patient consent
  • Mental Capacity Act
  • conscientious objection
  • medical confidentiality

Also searched with “medical ethics” in each of 8 national papers. Every term for Medical ethics & regulation

Verbatim

“It's like a terminal diagnosis. You learn to live with it, but it is awful because you keep thinking, did I do anything wrong?”
Consultant psychiatric nurse, runs a private addiction and mental health practice in Liverpool · Medical ethics & regulation · lancs.live · 26 Dec 2025 · Read the article
“I think this scandal is the size of the Post Office scandal. This is what we are living through.”
Consultant psychiatric nurse · Medical ethics & regulation · liverpoolecho.co.uk · 22 Dec 2025 · Read the article

Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other registered clinicians quoted in a clinical capacity. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 13 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.