Sarah Jarvis

She qualified as a medical doctor in July 1986 from University of Oxford with a BM BCh, and later went on to graduate from the University of Cambridge with an MA, and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners.[1][2]

Jarvis is currently working in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, and has been since 1990.[3]

She is also the health and medical reporter for The One Show, a television doctor on Good Morning Britain, ITV News and Jeremy Vine,[4] and is a regular guest on The Jeremy Vine Show, which airs weekdays on BBC Radio 2 from 12pm until 2pm and is the Clinical Consultant for health website Patient UK, alongside being a GP trainer.[2]

Jarvis was awarded an MBE in the 2018 New Year's honours list for services to general practice and public understanding of health.[5]

In a debate on the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show which originally aired on 16 March 2020, the former model, Caprice Bourret, got into a heated debate with the clearly irritated Dr Jarvis during a discussion on how to control the coronavirus outbreak. While Caprice cited the examples set by Taiwan and Singapore, which imposed two-week lockdowns, strict quarantine measures and made wearing a mask compulsory, Dr Jarvis interrupted her and argued that there was “no evidence for this whatsoever” on whether the mask wearing could control an outbreak.[6]

In March 2021 she commented that the display of the Union Jack by minister Robert Jenrick in the background of a video interview was inappropriate, remarking "nobody used the European flag to signal that they were racist".[7]

Jarvis was educated at Millfield, Street, Somerset. She lives in London with her dog, and is a keen gardener.[5]

• Jarvis, Sarah; Rubin, Alan, L (May 2007). Diabetes for Dummies (UK ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-05810-7.
• Jarvis, Sarah, ed. (2 January 2009). Women's Health for Life. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-1-4053-5378-6.
• Humphrys, John; Jarvis, Sarah (2 April 2009). The Welcome Visitor: Living Well, Dying Well (1st ed.). Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-92377-1.

• Sarah Jarvis at IMDb