Prof Rachel Isba: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- consultant in paediatric public health medicine at Alder Hey and professor emerita of children and young people's health at Lancaster University
- Quoted on
- Children's health, Public health & prevention, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“One of the most important things about this work is that we are trying to understand the wider picture. Ketamine use does not happen in isolation, and our analysis is helping us explore the different factors that may be associated with young people developing serious health problems.”
What Prof Rachel Isba has said
“There is growing consensus that vaping in young people is a bad idea – children should only be breathing air.”
paediatrician who piloted the UK's first NHS vaping cessation clinic for teenagers at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool · Public health & prevention · 10 Sept 2026 · Vaping safer than smoking – so why are people struggling to quit e-cigarettes? ↗
“There are probably many other children and young people out there who have bladder symptoms, or non-specific tummy pain, which may be due to their ketamine use but you need somebody to make the connection. We need to be specifically asking about ketamine use, but the vast majority of GPs and paediatricians in the UK will never have seen a child who's used ketamine.”
consultant in paediatric public health medicine who runs the clinic · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Ketamine addiction making teenagers wet the bed, says UK’s first specialist clinic ↗
Where Prof Rachel Isba has been quoted
- Children as young as 13 being referred to UK hospital suffering from ‘ketamine bladder’theguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Vaping safer than smoking – so why are people struggling to quit e-cigarettes?theguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
- Ketamine addiction making teenagers wet the bed, says UK’s first specialist clinictheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily citing them directly.
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 5 Oct 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.