Mark Norman is a BBC South East health correspondent covering healthcare across Kent, Sussex, Surrey and the wider South East of England. His work regularly appears across BBC News and regional BBC outlets, including BBC Radio Kent, BBC Radio Surrey and BBC Radio Sussex.

He has been covering NHS and health stories for at least a decade. BBC reports from 2016 and 2017 already identify him as the corporation’s South East health correspondent, including coverage of struggling hospital trusts, special measures and patient safety.