The Wicked Snow Queen. Isabel Nisbet. The GMC Slacker

New Wig Required.

Isabel Nisbet has been making lives miserable for students. Here she is crowing about the current exams despite the horrendous weather. She has gone from being the prime General Medical Slacker to being acting chief executive of Ofqual. We just have to observe how hot air rises. In Isabel's case it rises right up to being responsible for educating the kids.

In the statement related to R Pal v GMC 2004, Dr Jennifer Colman testified to the following

"The only time when I discussed Dr Pal at the GMC was when Sir Donald Irvine, the then president had invited me to have lunch with him on 23 June 2000 in thesmall dining room at 44 Hallam Street. The only other person present was Miss Isabel Nisbet, the then Director of Fitness to Practise. During the course of that conversation we touched on a number of topics including my experiences as a junior doctor. It was at that time that I told Sir Donald Irvine that I had had the conversations with Dr Pal and that I had advised her that she should not write things on her website which, no matter how valid they were, would more likely be used against her by the GMC and that she would be subjected to a health inquiry as the best way for them to undermine her credibility both personally and professionally would be to spread the view that she was suffering from a psychiatric disorder. Neither the President nor Isabel Nisbet made any attempt to deny this or that they would begin an inquiry around Dr Pal. There appeared to be an implicit understanding between us that this was how they did their business and that in view of my own past experiences with them, then I would know that that was the case. It was only very recently that I realised that even as I sat discussing this with the President the GMC had already started an inquiry into Dr Pal"

The full statement can be read here.

Some years ago, while reporting the R Pal v GMC case, we wrote on NHS Exposed. We stated the following

"Also on the 6th February 2005, the Observer newspaper reported that the General Medical Council had been aware of serious concerns about the paediatrician, Professor Sir Roy Meadow, since the year 2000 - long before he gave evidence which led to at least two mothers being wrongfully jailed for murder. According to the Observer’s report, internal emails sent by Isabel Nisbet, then the GMC’s head of Fitness to Practise Directorate, show that the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) had been attempting to contact her for “some weeks” but that she was “not up to speed” on the case. The full story from the Observer is available here.

Intriguingly, the slow-motion Ms Nisbet was, later that year, consulted during the early stages of the GMC’s secret two-year investigation of Dr Pal. This investigation, which included printing out and circulating copies of this web site and making “discrete, confidential inquiries” into her background after she raised concerns about poor standards of elderly care, ultimately proved to be groundless"

So there we have it, Isabel Nisbet is not fit to be let out of her cage never mind allowed to be chief executive and resident government poodle. In my view, Isabel should have been criminally prosecuted for allowing a illegal discreet inquiry in R Pal v GMC without justified reasoning. The GMC spent £82K plus of members subscription funds justifying Isobel Nisbets decision making process in the case.

Of course, we live in England where everyone appears to be blind to those who abuse their position. Instead of holding them accountable, they are promoted. Hot air rises as we know. It is basic physics.

Rationality is not Isabel's strong point at all. She is devoid of logic and lacks in intelligence. Then I suspect, you don't have to be that bright to be head of a hotshot authority. All she has to do is throw he weight around and she does that very well indeed. She can happily appear on BBC Breakfast because her current position means there will be no scrutiny of her integrity or ability. The researchers on there are hardly going to know the truth behind this specific person.

As everyone can guess, I don't think much of Isabel. In my view, she should get off her butt and try doing some proper work as opposed to forcing these poor kids to brave the weather conditions . She is quite happy to sit around in her comfy office. If I was a student, I would set about instigating an immediate strike action against her and demand a new chief executive. Students in the UK deserve better than a large old crow like Isabel Nisbet. No doubt she will be known as the wicked Snow Queen.

We shouldn't have to remind everyone that during her time at the General Medical Council, Isobel Allen released a damning study criticising the General Medical Council. Isabel Nisbet was also responsible for the disasters conducted during the Harold Shipman case. The criticisms made by Dame Janet can be read here. Enuff said :)