Mark Porter (born 18 April 1962) is a

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anaesthetist Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, ...

and was

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of the

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until June 2017 when he was succeeded by Chaand Nagpaul.

Early life and education

Porter was born in

Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-under-Lyme ( RP: , ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census population of the town was 75,082, whilst the wider borough had a population of 1 ...

on 18 April 1962 to Jean and John Porter. He studied at the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

graduating with a BSc in medical science in 1983, and MB ChB in 1989.

Career

Porter has been a consultant anaesthetist at

University Hospital Coventry University Hospital Coventry is a large National Health Service (NHS) hospital situated in the Walsgrave on Sowe area of Coventry, West Midlands, England, north-east of the city centre. It is part of the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwi ...

since 1998, specialising in obstetric and paediatric anaesthesia. He was said by the ''

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'' to be the 24th most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013. In December 2013 he warned the

, 'The financial outlook is dire. The NHS is struggling just to keep pace. A growing and ageing population, public health problems like obesity, and constant advances in treatment and technology are all contributing to push NHS costs well above general inflation. The numbers overall are so bad that if the NHS was a country, it would barely have a credit rating at all.'

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