Isobel Mason

Ms. Isobel works in a department which is proud of its nursing services which involve 13 nurse specialists and practitioners working as part of the multidisciplinary team in all areas of gastroenterology and nutrition nursing. She leads the service, supporting and developing nurses and making strategic decisions about improving and advancing nursing practice.

Her clinical role previously included a busy inflammatory bowel disease nursing service, which is now run day-to-day by two other nurse specialists. She also runs clinics for patients with dyspepsia, coeliac disease, iron deficiency anaemia and a family history of colorectal cancer.

Isobel has been chair of the Crohn’s and Colitis special interest group since January 2009 and in this role represented the RCN in the development of the Quality Care Standards for IBD care. She is now leading the working group developing the national IBD nursing audit which ran for the first time in May 2011. Isobel became chair of the RCN Gastrointestinal Nursing Forum in May 2011.