03 Profile
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Ishbel Straker
Consultant psychiatric nurse, runs a private addiction and mental health practice in Liverpool
Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 22 Dec 2025
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Ishbel Straker: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Consultant psychiatric nurse, runs a private addiction and mental health practice in Liverpool
- Quoted on
- Medical ethics & regulation
- Press coverage
- 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
Quoted
Quoted in the press on medical ethics & regulation.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Charlie MasseyRegulatorChief Executive and Registrar, General Medical CouncilLeading- Dr Manjeet ShehmarClinicianMedical Director, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustLeading
Arthur CaplanAcademicProfessor Emeritus and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine (NYU Langone Health)Leading
Dominic 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- Ellie LameySector leaderCriminal Injuries Compensation Authority specialist with SACA
- Ishbel StrakerClinicianConsultant psychiatric nurse, runs a private addiction and mental health practice in Liverpool
- Deborah HudsonClinicianNurse practitioner at a GP surgery; nurse of 24 years
Dr 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
- lancs.live
- liverpoolecho.co.uk
Where Ishbel Straker has been quoted
- 'We are living through a scandal the size of Post Office, it's like a terminal diagnosis' | Lancs Livelancs.live · 26 Dec 2025
- '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?”
“I think this scandal is the size of the Post Office scandal. This is what we are living through.”
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