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Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 13 November 2026 · 31,544 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Heart disease & stroke
Mark Porter: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Mark Porter
Doctor, BMA council chair
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Quoted in the press, across 2 topics since 21 Feb 2026
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Mark Porter: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Doctor, BMA council chair
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 1 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 21 Feb 2026
04 On the record · press
What Mark Porter has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- mirror.co.uk
- somersetcountygazette.co.uk
Where Mark Porter has been quoted
- NHS doctor tells anyone over 35 buy £30 item 'it could save life'mirror.co.uk · 1 Oct 2026
- Looking Back: When Taunton's junior doctors went on strike in 2016somersetcountygazette.co.uk · 21 Feb 2026
How we found the articles that name Mark Porter: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 2 topics
Heart disease & stroke
- heart disease
- cardiovascular
- stroke
- cardiac
- heart attack
- stroke rehabilitation
Also searched with “heart disease” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Heart disease & stroke
NHS & care workforce/staffing
- NHS workforce
- staff shortages
- nursing shortage
- nurse recruitment
- care workforce
- care worker pay
- social care workforce
- NHS long term workforce plan
Also searched with “NHS workforce” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for NHS & care workforce/staffing
Verbatim
“Put it this way: lowering someone's readings is only part of the solution, albeit a vital one. So if you don't have a blood pressure monitor at home, please consider buying one. I favour monitors with an upper-arm cuff.”
“We sincerely regret the disruption that industrial action will cause, but junior doctors have been left with no option.”
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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 13 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.