Dr Kay M.G. Wood

Teaching Fellow (Pharmacy Practice)

PG Programme Director - PgDip for Overseas Pharmacists (OSPAP)

Aston Pharmacy School
School of Life and Health Sciences
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham B4 7ET
UK

email: k.m.g.wood@aston.ac.uk
telephone: +44 (0) 121 204 4042

Member of the Medicines Research Unit
Member of the Pharmacy Teaching Programme

Teaching Activity on the MPharm Programme

PH2506: Biochemistry and haematology testing, drug treatment in the elderly, diagnosis and monitoring in diabetes.
PH4703: Lectures on drug interactions, rational prescribing and influences on prescribing; workshop on sexual and mental health; lead mini-CEXs (written by TPs) on liver disease, renal disease, Crohn’s, drug use in pregnancy and paediatrics.
Also contributions to PH2501, PH3601 and PH3607

Career History

• 2002-date P/T Medicines Management Services Collaborative Project Facilitator, South Warwickshire PCT
• 2000-02 P/T Practice Pharmacist, Prescribing Support Services, West Coventry PCG
• 1996-date Teaching Fellow (Pharmacy Practice), Aston University
• 1992-96 Research Assistant, Department of Medicines Management, Keele University
• 1991-92 Assistant Dispensary Manager & Clinical Trials Pharmacist, Birmingham General Hospital
• 1989-91 Grade B Pharmacist, Birmingham General Hospital
• 1988-89 Pre-registration Pharmacy Graduate, Coventry Hospitals

Research Interests

• Managing change in primary care
• Repeat dispensing
• Compliance/concordance
• Pharmacists' attitudes towards learning about practice research

Recent Publications

• Jesson J, Pocock R, Wilson KA, Wood KMG. (2002)
  Primary Care Prescribing: Hard to swallow.
  Health Service Journal 10^th October, 28-29
• Wood KMG, Jesson JK, Wilson KA. (2000)
  Developing the research infrastructure in pharmacy practice.
  Pharmaceutical Journal 265, R77
• Wood KM, Boath EH, Mucklow JC, Blenkinsopp A. (1997)
  Changing medication: general practitioner and patient perspectives.
  International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 5,176-184
• Wood KM, Mucklow JC, Boath EH. (1997)
  Influencing prescribing in primary care: a collaboration between clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy.
  International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 5, 1-5

Abstracts

• Ruda KC, Wood KMG (2007)
  Evaluating the quality of written medicines use reviews report
  International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 15 (2) B76-B77.Presented at British Pharmaceutical Conference, Manchester
• Cox AR, Marriott JF Wood KMG, Ferner RE. (2006)
  General practitioners’ attitudes towards adverse drug reaction reporting : A qualitative study.
  Drug Safety 29 (10) 952-952
• Wood KMG, Jesson JK, Wilson KA. (2001)
  Attitudes towards practice research: Comparison of postgraduate pharmacy and business students.
  Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference, Nottingham (oral presentation)
• Wood KM, Jesson JK, Wilson KA. (2000)
  Why a research module in the Clinical Diploma?
  The attempt to teach reluctant pharmacists. International Conference on Lifelong Learning in Pharmacy, Belfast (oral presentation)
• Wood KM, Boath EH, Mucklow JC, Blenkinsopp A. (1997)
  Therapeutic substitution: GP and patient perspectives.
  UKCPA Residential Symposium, Blackpool (oral presentation)
• Wood KM, Mucklow JC, Boath EH. (1997)
  Influencing prescribing in primary care: a collaboration between clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy.
  GP Prescribing - developments in professional support, London (poster)