Dr Sarah Jarvis
Specialised areas:
Women’s health
CHD
Patient education
Current positions:
Radio 2 doctor
Doctor to Good Housekeeping
Women’s health spokesperson, RCGP
Women’s health tutor, RCGP/University of Bath distance learning package
Profile:
Sarah trained at Cambridge and Oxford, and is a ¾ time GP and GP trainer in an inner city practice with 1 executive and 7 clinical partners.
She entered the world of the medical media entirely by accident, through work with the Royal College of GPs (first as trainee rep on Council and later as chair of the Women’s Taskforce). She still hasn’t quite worked out how she ended up where she is now!
Married with 2 children, hobbies include historical re-enactment (with Regency murder mysteries a particular favourite!)
Media work:
Past regular posts include a weekly column in Today newspaper, 4 years as ITN lunchtime news doctor and 11 years on the advisory boards of Update and Doctor.
She is a member of the advisory board for the British Journal of Cardiology and the patient group of Heart UK, as well as a resident doctor on Good Housekeeping and Radio 2, appearing on Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 programme on Monday afternoons. She also appears regularly on Radio 5 live, Radio 4, GMTV and ITN lunchtime news.
Books include A Younger Woman’s Diagnose-It-Yourself Guide to Health, Diabetes for Dummies and Pregnancy for Dummies. Present writing projects include Child Health for Dummies and a book on the ethics of dying, co-authored with John Humphrys.