Sir Sam Everington OBE

‘Neighbourhoods and social prescribing: from a pioneering hub in East London to a national and international movement’

Joint meeting with RCGP

Sir Sam Everington OBE, MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister

GP Bromley by Bow Centre, London, Provost RCGP

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 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 150 different ethnic groups. We are proud to say we have the world in our East End.

Sam Provost of the RCGP, a non-executive board member of NHS England, and 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 was a member of the East London NHS Foundation Trust board (mental Health Hospital) and was an Associate Director of NHS Resolution. He is 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 Knight’s Society and 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.

In his presentation on ‘Neighbourhoods and social prescribing’ Sam will chart the journey the innovative, pioneering work he has done in East London to what is now the growing national and international movement of social prescribing. He will also draw on the importance of neighbourhoods and this fits into the current government’s plans for neighbourhood health.

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