Nursing Team

Meet our team :

Practice Nurses 

Nurse Karen Goodwin (f)

Karen is our Nurse Manager leading the Nursing Team with over 20 years’ experience as a Practice Nurse.
As well as leading the team Karen’s duties include Infection Control Lead specialising in our Respiratory Care- COPD and Asthma. Karen is also involved with cervical screening, family planning, and childhood vaccinations.

Nurse Sue Jay (f)

Sue has over 20 years’ experience as a Practice Nurse. She specialises in our Diabetes Care, and is involved with cervical screening, family planning, and childhood vaccinations.

Nurse Natalie Castle (f)

Natalie is one of our Practice Nurses who has joined us after many years working in the district nursing team. Her main roles include leading our Dressing Clinics, Cervical Smears, stitch removal, INR’s, injections, some vaccinations, venepuncture and other general nursing duties.

Nurse Sarah White (f)

Sarah is one of our Practice Nurses who has many years experience in Nursing. Her main roles include dressings, stitch removal, injections, childhood vaccinations, venepuncture and other general nursing duties.

Nursing Associate

This is a new role in primary care, (NA), Ms Leah Watts (f), has completed a two year course with Bristol University an is now a qualified Nursing Associate. She can carry out many of the treatment room services our Nurses carry out. She is currently working alongside our nurses and Healthcare technicians learning and supporting the team adn training in smear taking. Leah assists the Doctors in hypertension management and Learning Disability health checks. 

GP Assistant / Health Care Technician

Crystal Thompson (f)
Crystal provides Health Care Assistant Care for our patients, including blood tests, blood pressure checks and foot checks for patients with Diabetes. She works closely with our practice nurses. As a GP Assistant she provides support to the Doctors to manage patients with Long Term Conditions/Chronic Disease Checks. 

Mrs Joyce Knight (f)

Joyce is our longest serving member of the team and is our Senior Healthcare Technician and GPA. She provides nursing assistant care for our patients, carrying out blood tests, dressing care, stitch removal, blood pressure checks, Vit B12 injections, ear syringing, flu vaccinations and ECG's. She works closely with our practice nurses She also carries out foot checks on our diabetic patients.

Healthcare Technicians/Assistants

Mr Simon Merrett (m)

Simon provides nursing assistant care for our patients, carrying out blood tests, blood pressure checks, dressings, flu vaccinations, stich removal and ECG's. He works closely with our practice nurses. He also carries out home visits for INR tests for patients who cannot get into the surgery. He also assists in our medicals.