Meet the Advanced Practitioners

In December 2019, the practice embarked on a journey to expand the clinical team at the practice to include Advanced Practitioners.

Advanced Practitioners are professionals who have undertaken additional Advanced Clinical Skills and Assessment training and are often able to prescribe certain medications to patients, where appropriate.

They are also able to request tests and can refer onto specialist colleagues in secondary care if required, in the same way as doctors at the practice can.

They work as part of the wider multi-disciplinary practice team to ensure that the needs of the patients are met by the most appropriate Healthcare Professional for their condition.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners are able to see and treat a wide variety of health complaints, an example of some are:

• Urinary tract infections
• Respiratory tract infections
• Skin complaints, including acne
• Emergency contraception
• Earache
• Throat infection/tonsillitis

Alan Davidson, our Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner, was the first to join the team in December 2019, with Angela Auld and Heather Watters joining shortly later. The newest member of our team is Nichola Cassidy, who joined us in 2025. Like all of the other staff at the practice, the Advanced Nurse Practitioner Team members work at both surgery sites.

Alan Davidson

Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Alan Qualified in 1995. His career to date has involved working as an Anaesthetic nurse, A&E/Trauma Care and Pre-hospital Care. His most recent post prior to joining the team at Taymount/Scone in 2019 and was in Urgent Care as part of the Perth & Kinross Out of Hours Service where he worked alongside GPs for 15 years. Alan has also worked as a Unit Nurse for TV and Film production companies. Outside of work, he enjoys anything outdoors, travel, music, gadgets, technology and cinema.

Angela Sankey

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Angela qualified in 2005 and has extensive experience in Trauma and Emergency nursing across the UK and in New-Zealand. Working in remote settings as a Rural Nurse Specialist in New-Zealand gave Angela the inspiration to become an ANP and she came to the practice as a trainee ANP in 2020, completing the training in 2024. Outside of work she likes running, climbing mountains and wild swimming.

Heather Watters

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Heather qualified in London in 1991 and has been working in General Practice in Scotland since 1994. She has a special interest in respiratory care and women's health. She has been part of the respiratory teaching team at NHS Education for Scotland since 2018 and joined the practice team in August 2021. When not at work you will find her up a hill or behind a camera lens.

Nichola Cassidy

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Nichola has been a nurse for 15 years, mostly working in the Emergency Departments across Tayside where she trained as an ANP. Outside of work she is a dog lover, who enjoys spending time outdoors up hills and in the water.

Our Advanced Nurse Practitioners are booked in the same way as other members of the clinical team and the reception staff will routinely offer you an appointment with one of them if you are presenting with a condition felt to be within their scope of practice.