Nursing team

Bex Summers

Lead practice nurse

Bex worked for much of her adult life within healthcare. She started as a Health Care Assistant and gradually progressed to assistant practitioner and then a qualified nurse. She has worked within a variety of care settings including a care home, hospitals on the ward and women’s outpatients, community nursing and most recently prison nursing. She enjoys the variety of nursing and meeting different people.

Mrs Tina McTaggart

Tina is a part time practice nurse, mainly focussing on respiratory and diabetic care.

Mrs Clare Wood

Clare has worked at the surgery for the last five years as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for our care home residents . With a background in community care including the Frailty Service, Rapid Response and District Nursing, her specialist interest is in caring for the elderly in a holistic manner to insure they continue to have a good quality of life in their advancing  years . She , along with her colleague Katie , visits each care home every two weeks so that close monitoring is maintained and good relationships are built up with the home and its residents .

Mrs Katie Langmaid

Katie has worked at the Surgery for the past 3 years as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Care Home residents.  Katie has a background working for secondary care, including Medical and Surgical Ward Management and for 17 years as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for the Acute Care Response team at Gloucestershire Hospitals.  Her specialist interests are care of the elderly, preventing hospital admissions, and helping to insure quality of life for care home patients. Working alongside Clare, she visits the care homes every two weeks, for close monitoring and to build collaborative relationships with patients and staff.

Mrs Marion Davies

Mrs Anne Green

Anne has been a practice nurse for over 20 years. She has a keen interest in travel health, childhood immunisations and women’s health. Anne is also trained in asthma and COPD management.

Mrs Rebecca Lea

Newly qualified nurse, graduated from the University of Gloucestershire. Sixteen-year background in elderly and dementia care. Keen interests in medicines and palliative/end of life care.

Mrs Emma Jane

Mrs Teresa Sidley

Teresa holds a regular surgery at the main surgery in Cirencester, offering blood pressure checks, B12 injections, ECG’s and assisting the doctors with minor operations. She also runs the NHS health check clinic’s and leads the INR clinic.

Mrs Elaine Dove

Elaine is a HCA based at Phoenix Tetbury. Elaine assists our GP’s with minor surgery, in addition to treatment duties such as dressings, sutures, clip removal, phlebotomy, INR monitoring, ECG’s, some vaccinations and immunisations and adult health checks.

Mrs Vanessa Smith

Mrs Hayley Dash

Hayley currently works across three of the Phoenix sites (Cirencester, Tetbury, South Cerney ) doing the physical checks and blood tests for our patients with diabetes. 

She is also part of the research team supporting Dr Vernon. 

Sammy Matthews

Healthcare assistant

Sammy has joined Phoenix Health Group in 2025 as a Health Care Assistant. Sammy is also a Student Nursing Associate and aspiring NMC registrant.

Sammy has 5 Years prior experience in Health & Social Care where she was based in the Private Care Sector caring for service users with Nursing, Dementia & Palliative Care needs in roles including Chef, Health Care Assistant, Senior Care Assistant & Quality Support Partner/Regional Quality Manager.

Mrs Helen Cole

Helen is a part time Phlebotomist who visits all of our sites. Helen has almost 20 years expirience of Phlebotomy and before that Helen was a nurse for 15 years in the NHS and Private Sector.

Mrs Carla Cappai