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Clinician

Alison Downey

Consultant Urologist, Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is based in Wakefield and Rothwell — the organisation’s base, not a personal address.

Press citations

2

Topics

2

Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

Last quoted

Aug 2026

Alison Downey: key facts

Kind of voice
Clinician
Role
Consultant Urologist
Organisation
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Organisation based in
Wakefield and Rothwell
Quoted on
Hospital discharge / bed-blocking, Mental health
Tracked press citations
2
Most recently quoted
27 Aug 2026

Who Alison Downey is

Alison Downey is a Consultant Urologist at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, based at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. She has published clinical work on functional and reconstructive urology, urinary tract infection, and neurourology in Urology News. Downey has become a prominent public voice on the harms of recreational ketamine use, warning that urology departments are being overwhelmed by young patients with severe bladder damage caused by the drug. She co-authored the 2024 British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) consensus statements on the management of ketamine uropathy, published in BJU International. She has been quoted in regional and national press coverage, and authored a piece on the Mid Yorkshire Trust website calling for a joined-up addiction and urology response to the ketamine crisis.

“We're already stretched really thin as it is and it's been a massive increase that we're just not equipped for. Although it causes urology problems, ketamine abuse is not a urology issue, it's an addiction and we can't do anything about that.”

References for this biography

  1. 1.Trust doctor warns about the dangers of Ketamine misuse | Mid Yorks — Confirms role as Consultant Urologist at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; establishes her public advocacy on ketamine uropathy and urology capacity pressures
  2. 2.British Association of Urological Surgeons Consensus statements on the management of ketamine uropathy – BJU International — Confirms authorship of 2024 BAUS consensus paper and affiliation with Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust, Wakefield
  3. 3.Alison Downey contributor profile – Urology News — Confirms base at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield and published clinical articles on functional/reconstructive urology and infection
  4. 4.Tragedy as 'party drug' takes another life – Yorkshire Live / Examiner Live — Press coverage confirming her as Consultant Urologist at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, quoting her on the surge in ketamine-related admissions
  5. 5.Miss Alison Pauline Downey | BAUS surgeon directory — Confirms BAUS membership and full name as registered with the British Association of Urological Surgeons
  6. 6.BAUS AGM Agenda, 13 June 2022 — Confirms elevation to Full UK BAUS membership in 2022, at that point affiliated with Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield

Notable achievements

  • Co-authored the 2024 BAUS consensus statements on the management of ketamine uropathy, published in BJU International (vol. 134, issue 2, pp. 148–154) Source ↗
  • Elevated to Full UK membership of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) at its June 2022 AGM, then affiliated with Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Source ↗
  • Listed as a registered surgeon on the BAUS patient-facing surgeon directory Source ↗

What Alison Downey has said

Where Alison Downey has been quoted

  1. ‘Absolutely frightening’: surge in ketamine cases hits urology wards in England and Walestheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
  2. ‘I was peeing blood constantly’: my ketamine hell – and what made me stoptheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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