Sarah Jarvis is a GP, GP trainer and fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

She is also a medical writer and broadcaster, and is currently the BBC Radio 2 doctor and doctor to the One Show on BBC1, Good Housekeeping, My Weekly and AXA PPP magazines, as well as spending 10 years as ITN lunchtime News doctor. She also contributes regularly to Daybreak, Sky News and BBC Radio 5 live.

Dr Jarvis is passionate about empowering people to take control of their own health and to work with their healthcare professionals on an equal footing. She blogs regularly and is clinical consultant to Patient.co.uk, a healthcare site which attracts a million ‘hits’ a month from GPs and practice nurses in providing advice and evidence based education to patients.

She has been the Women’s Health tutor for the University of Bath/Royal College of GPs course on women’s health, as well as the Women’s Health spokesperson for the RCGP and chair of the Health Care Committee of HEART UK, the cholesterol charity.

She has authored Diabetes for Dummies (now in its 3rd edition), Pregnancy for Dummies (in its second edition), Children’s Health for Dummies, The younger woman’s Diagnose-It-Yourself guide to Health, Women’s Health for Life (winner of the BMA popular medicine book award) and The Welcome Visitor, a book on ethical dilemmas at the end of life co-authored with the broadcaster John Humphrys.