Mark Porter

Mark Christopher Milsom Porter, MBE (born 12 November 1962 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England) is a GP and medical correspondent for The Times and columnist for Saga Magazine.

Porter has recently retired as a partner in NHS general practice in Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire and he lives in the Cotswolds with his wife Ros. He married Ros in July 1987 in Axbridge in Somerset. He is not, contrary to rumour, the cousin of Jeremy Clarkson.

Education He grew up in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, and went to the independent schools Monmouth and Wycliffe College. He studied at University College London and Westminster Hospital Medical School (now Imperial College School of Medicine) and graduated in 1986.

He has been a GP since 1990 and was awarded MBE for services to medicine in 2005. In the early 1990s his surgery was at Locking Hill in Stroud, and he lived in Bisley, Gloucestershire from 1987. He then joined Culverhay Surgery in Wotton-under-Edge where he became a GP partner.

Media He has had a long part-time career in the media having joined the BBC in 1992 as the doctor for the show Good Morning with Anne and Nick and was there for the show's whole run. He was the health editor for the Radio Times from 1993 to 2003. He presented the BBC1 programme Watchdog Healthcheck. He took over from Dr Thomas Stuttaford as The Times doctor in January 2009, and was doctor to The One Show (BBC One). He also presented Case Notes and Inside Health for BBC Radio 4. He also regularly appeared on The Jimmy Young Programme on BBC Radio 2, answering medical questions from listeners. He is currently a medical columnist for The Times (weekly) and Saga Magazine (monthly) and presents the podcast Experience is Everything: the Health Edition