Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Mrs Jo Blain
Teacher Practitioner
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Division of Pharmacy Practice
School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
University of Portsmouth
St Michael's Building
White Swan Road
Portsmouth
PO1 2DT
Profile
Qualifications
BSc, MSc, MRPharmS
External memberships / posts
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association.
Key teaching responsibilities
Level 3: Clinical pharmacy and secondary care
MSc: Communication Studies
Key research interests
Hospital pharmacy.
Medicines management within the specialty of medicine and care of the elderly.
Documentation of hospital pharmacist interventions.
Electronic prescribing.
The primary / secondary care interface.
Key / recent publications
Brown D, Wills S, Blain J, Wildman K & Howard J, The importance of drug information from a patient perspective, J. Soc. Admin. Pharm., 16, 115-126, 1999.
Blain J, McKay S, Rigg R & Ward G, Patient focused pharmacy services at Kingston, Hospital Pharmacist, 1, 12-14, 1994.
Blain J, & Bates L, Expectations of pain and pain audit in orthopaedic surgical patients, Pharmaceutical J., 249, R35, 1992.