Professor Sir Sam Everington

Professor Sir Sam Everington MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister, OBE, FRCGP. 

Sam has been a GP in East London, England since 1989 at the Bromley By Bow Centre. The centre has over 100 projects under its roof ranging from art and garden therapy and financial and jobs advice, all supporting the wider determinants of health. The social prescribing delivered at the centre, is now part of a network of thousands across the country and a growing movement across the world. Its focus is on what matters to patients rather than what is the matter with them. East London is a poor community but rich in diversity with over 180 different ethnic group. We are proud to say we have the world in our East End. 

Sam is an Honorary Vice President of the British Medical Association. In 1999 he received an OBE for services to inner city primary care in 2006, The International Award of Excellence in Health Care and in 2015 a Knighthood for services to primary care. In 2022 he received the Albert Medal from the Royal Society of Arts (Previous recipients include Marie Curie, Stephen Hawking, Winston Churchill). He is an Associate Director of NHS Resolution and a Fellow and Honorary Professor of Queen Mary University of London and an Honorary Vice President of the Queen's Institute of Community Nursing. He is a member of the Royal College of GPs Council and the Knight’s Society and is co-chair of the Charity, the College of Medicine. He is a non-executive board member of NHS England and is the Provost of the RCGP. He is a trained woodcarver, day skipper, and speaks Norwegian. He trained originally as a cadet pilot in the RAF and lives with his wife and children in the East End of London in the heart of his community.