Sam Sherrington (RN, DN, QN, MSc, FQNI) is a Registered Nurse, qualified Specialist Practitioner in the home, District Nurse, Queens Nurse and Nurse Prescriber. Sam is also NHS England Northwest Regional Director Strategy and Transformation. Sam was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 2023 and currently sits on the Quality and Governance committee. 

Previously for the last four years, as National Deputy Director of Community Nursing, in the Chief Nursing Officer’s Directorate at NHS England, having spent ten years in the national team formerly as Head of Nursing and Midwifery Strategy within the Nursing Directorate and Head of Stakeholder and Cultural Transformation, Future Focused Finance within the Finance Directorate. Previously for eight years, Sam worked for the Northwest Strategic Health Authority, leading the delivery of the Department of Health Non-Medical Prescribing Programme across the region, then nationally for the Department of Health as an advisor and internationally.

In 2023 for NHS75, Sam was listed amongst only 75 nurses and midwives whose work has had an especially significant impact on the NHS between 1948-2023. In addition, Sam has been recognised and awarded a prestigious fellowship by The Queen’s Nursing Institute. More recently, Sam has been awarded a Sir Winston Churchill International Fellowship.

Sam holds a number of national roles, including Chair of Association for Prescribers UK and co-chair of European, UK and Ireland committee Prescribing Research in Medicines Management (PRIMM). Sam is well published and has won a number of awards, most notably 'The Eileen Steele Memorial Award for Caring’. Sam holds a MSc Nursing (Cancer), a post graduate Leadership and Management qualification, is a Top Directors NHS Leadership Academy graduate and is ILM level 7 Exec coach and mentor. She is a founding Director of Health and Education Cooperative across the Northwest. She is formerly a nurse board member for Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group, Greater Manchester and member of the National Association for Primary Care Executive. She is an expert advisor for University of Surrey to the nationally reported evaluation of independent prescribing by therapeutic radiographers and supplementary prescribing by dietitians. In her spare time, Sam enjoys time with her young family in Bolton, Greater Manchester.