Brian Gibbons
Politician, Person
1950 –
Who is Brian Gibbons?
Brian Gibbons, FRCGP is a medical doctor who was the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon from May 1999 to May 2010. He was Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Health and Social Services from 2005 to 2007 and Minister for Social Justice and Local Government from 2007 to 2009.
A son of the former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, Hugh Gibbons, he was raised in County Roscommon Ireland, and moved to Yorkshire in 1976 to train as a general medical practitioner in Calderdale. He subsequently became a GP in Blaengwynfi and also worked as a GP in partnership with Dr Julian Tudor Hart at Glyncorrwg in the Afan Valley near Port Talbot.
A member of the BMA, the Socialist Health Association, and the Medical Practitioners Union, he is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a former Secretary to the Morgannwg Local Medical Committee.
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- Born
- Aug 25, 1950
Ireland - Profession
- Education
- Summerhill College
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on July 23, 2013
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