Practice Team

Dr Jo Piercy qualified from Birmingham in 1993. She spent her first few years doing a variety of hospital posts and gained MRCP in 1996. She then worked as a registrar in Haematology for 18 months before embarking on her GP training, which she completed in 2000. She worked happily as a salaried GP for 12 years at Shipston Medical Centre. At this time, she also lectured at Birmingham and Warwick Medical Schools helping undergraduate medical students in the area of communication skills.

Dr Piercy then moved to Hastings House to become a GP partner. Her clinical interests include diabetes and education. She continues to help with the teaching of medical students at Hastings House, running a programme of weekly educational meetings to ensure the clinical team keep up to date. Dr Piercy is married with two children who have provided her with an introduction to the world of football. She enjoys keeping fit through tennis, cycling and running. Dr Piercy started a book club in her village which meets at the pub, nicknamed “the wine club”.

Dr Preece graduated in Medicine from the University of Warwick in 2009. He undertook most of his post-graduate training at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW), undertaking jobs in general medicine, paediatrics, surgery and palliative care. Struggling to break free from the hustle and bustle of A&E medicine, he continued to work at UHCW until 2018. Dr Preece is the prescribing lead for the practice and his particular areas of interest include dermatology, joint injections and palliative care.

He currently holds an honorary contract with Myton Hospices, a part-time role that he has held since 2012 and is an examiner with Warwick Medical School. He used to be a keen sportsmen before he got too old and now enjoys being an un-paid taxi driver for his three children, often sitting in overly warm swimming pools or standing in the rain watching sport.

Dr Paul de Cates graduated in Medicine from Oxford in 2007, after first completing a degree in Medical Biochemistry. He completed his GP training in Coventry & Warwickshire in 2013 under the tutelage of Dr Kate Owen at Hastings House, whilst also working as an Academic Clinical Fellow at Warwick Medical School. He worked as a salaried GP in Daventry for 18 months, before joining Hastings House once again as a partner.

Paul continues to work as an Academic GP at Warwick Medical School, where he leads the teaching, assessment and support for approximately 360 medical students in their final two years of the Medicine degree programme. He is also an External Examiner at Keele Medical School. Paul has a passion for choral singing, and previously performed as a member of several well-known choirs. Paul is married with two children.

Dr Moerdyk completed her training at the University of Cape town in South Africa. She was previously a GP Partner at a surgery in Northamptonshire but moved to leafy Warwickshire with her family and joined Hastings House in November 2019. 

Dr Moerdyk has a clinical interest in Women's Health and she  fits coils and contraceptive implants.  She is a clinical lead for Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub, a GP appraiser and also does some work for the Royal College of General Practitioners. 

Dr Rintoul-Hoad graduated in Medicine from Warwick Medical School in 2016, after a first degree in Chemistry from Durham University in 2005 and spending a few misplaced years as an accountant in between the two.

He completed his GP training locally, joining Hastings House for a while as a Registrar in 2020 before returning as a salaried doctor from February 2022. 

He has a clinical interests in cardiology and  pre-hospital trauma, providing medical cover for horse racing and eventing across the midlands and beyond.

His spare time is mainly spent outdoors with either dogs, horses or both, usually accompanied by his wife and children.