Dr David Jefferys is Councillor for Shortlands Ward.  He is chairman of the Bromley Health and Well Being Board and sits as an observer on the Bromley and SE London CCGs.

He is also a member of the Care Services, the Health Scrutiny and the Environment Committees of the Council, along with SACRE (the Standing Committee on Religious Education).

He has championed the Shortlands Street Scene Pilot and also Dementia Care.

A clinical pharmacologist, cardiologist, and pharmaceutical physician he is extensively involved in the Life Science industry and also works with several Universities. In his limited spare time he is currently Church warden of St Mary's Shortlands, passionate about sport (these days more watching, but skis, plays golf and jogs) and also dabbles in water colour and oil painting.