Sam Everington

To give you an example of, uh, an amazing additional option that to me was really transformative.

So one of the heroes in my book about this, "Lost Connections," is an amazing doctor called Sam Everington.

And Sam is a doctor in a poor part of East London, where I lived for a long time, though sadly, he never got to be my doctor.

And Sam had loads of patients coming to him with terrible depression and anxiety.

... quite simple in a way, of doing something for somebody else.

So in your book, you talk about one of the pioneers of this thing called social prescribing, who was a, somebody called Professor Sir Sam Everington.

So who was he to begin with?

So he is a GP from the East End of London.

I want to hear the unfiltered stories of their time in the NHS, their road to leadership, and their bold ideas for the future of the system.

My guest today is Professor Sir Sam Everington.

He's been a GP in Tower Hamlets since 1989 at the Bromley by Bow Centre, but he started training as a barrister and then as a doctor at the Royal Free.

He spent decades campaigning from outside the system on discrimination, on junior doctor hours and on primary care.