Morning and afternoon surgeries are held by appointment. The nurses carry out a full range of treatments including, amongst other things, the dressing of wounds, treating injuries, immunisations, holiday injections and advice, and a variety of other treatments. In addition, they run special clinics for diabetes, asthma and travel advice.

The current nurse team consists of: 

Marion Baker, Senior Practice Nurse
Denise Orton, Practice Nurse 
Sara Crabb, Practice Nurse 
Alison Thorne, Health Care Assistant 
Karen Roberts, Health Care Assistant 

Practice Nurses

Marion Baker Lead Specialist Practice Nurse – full time

Marion has taken over the roles as Senior Nurse. In addition to general nursing, Marion is the Team Leader for the Practice Nurses and manages our Diabetic Clinics, Smoking Cessation Clinics, COPD, Asthma and Travel Clinics. 

Marion trains other practice nurses in cytology and is a NVQ assessor.

Sara Crabb SRN works 20 hours per week

Sara provides general nursing care, including childhood immunisations and cervical cytology. She is presently training in asthma management. 

Denise Orton RGN works 20 hours per week

Denise provides general nursing care, including childhood immunisations and cervical cytology. She shares the management of diabetes patients with Marion. 


Phlebotomy

The practice has a health care assistant who is available, by appointment, to take blood samples, blood pressure readings and a range of other tests at the doctors’ request. To free our trained nurses we have employed two health care assistants, Alison Thorne and Karen Roberts. 


Community Nurses

A community nurse team, employed by Somerset Primary Care Trust, is based at the health centre. The team can be contacted by ringing the health centre (TAUNTON 331381 Ext 247).