Sam Everington

Sam joined the Board of NHS England on 1 August 2025.

Sam has been a GP in East London since 1989 at the Bromley By Bow Centre. The centre has over 100 projects under its roof ranging from art and garden therapy to 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.

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 a member of the East London NHS Foundation Trust board, an Associate Director of NHS Resolution, a Fellow and Honorary Professor of Queen Mary University of London and 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 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.