A GP is set to retire after 30 years of running his long-serving family general practice in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Dr David Morgan has spent his whole life involved in the medical field, following in his parents and grandfather's footsteps.
Dr Morgan is a third-generation GP and began working at Penrhiwceiber Medical Centre in 1993 after his father, Trevor Morgan, fell ill. The 61-year-old, who lives in Swansea, has been commuting to Penrhiwceiber ever since and is set to take a step back in July, before retiring officially in six months time.
He said: “My grandfather came over to the Valleys from the Royal College of Surgeons [Dublin, Ireland] looking for a locum. He stopped in Penrhiwceiber did a locum and got offered a partnership in 1923. They were just building the Mountain Ash General Hospital for the minors and workers and he was a part of that - all the GPs agreed to do that for free and they would only pay consultants from Cardiff if they needed them to come up. That was run for a few years and he met a nurse called Violet Morgan and they stayed in Penrhiwceiber.
