George went to Medical school in Cambridge and Oxford, trained in Gastroenterology as registrar and senior registrar for nine years in Yorkshire, in Leeds, Bradford and Hull.

He then came to Huddersfield in December 1993 as the only Gastroenterologist in the Trust at that stage.

His plans for retirement are to not have an initial plan. George said: “it will be a very different lifestyle and new priorities will arise that are not necessarily predictable at this stage. I expect that I will be spending a lot more time outdoors!

“I will look back positively on how both individuals and services have grown and developed over time here. There are too many things I will miss to list them individually.”