Philippa is a GP, author, journalist and mother.

She is a Londoner and only moved away for three years while studying at Downing College Cambridge, before returning to Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ medical school for her clinical training. Once qualified she started having babies all in the midst of training in paediatrics, gynaecology, care of the elderly and acute medicine, psychiatry and then general practice.  She now works as a GP in both privately and for the NHS, before running home to the chaos of a house with a husband and three children.​

She is the author of 8 books, including: Doctors Get Cancer Too is her memoir of being 39 years old, a busy doctor and mother when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and was an Amazon bestseller, and The M Word: Everything you need to know about the menopause which reached number 2 in the Amazon charts. Breasts: An Owner’s Guide was released in 2023. She is the medical expert for Woman, Woman & Home, That’s Life and My Weekly Special magazines and regularly contributes to the print and online press as well as having a role as the Ann Summers sexual health GP. She is regularly seen on the sofa on television on This Morning, Talk TV and various news programmes on both radio and television.

Below is a link to Dr Philippa explaining what happens during cervical screening, a smear test.  The clip has been viewed worldwide more than 15.4 million times!

What a pleasure to release this podcast on International Women’s Day 2024 with the theme of inspire inclusion. Being a GP has allowed Philippa to work in all the areas of medicine she is interested in. Writing books, and being on social media and TV, has allowed her to reach a wider audience to share her immense knowledge. In this very powerful podcast, we discuss a better world for women. Education is key, so they can understand their health and know when to contact their GP. Women often wait too long to visit their GP putting up with painful periods, miscarriage, menopause symptoms and more. She says we should not feel we are disturbing our GPs – “The time for you to bother me is the time when it bothers you.” We discuss Philippa’s advice on infertility, menopause, breasts, cervical screening and cancer. And what it is like to juggle being a working mother.