The Jarman Underprivileged Area Score is a General Practice workload measure. It was not originally constructed to measure deprivation and was derived from GPs subjective expressions of social factors in their patients that effected their workload.

The Jarman Score is used to take the geographical variations in the demand for primary care into account. The range and weighting of variables included in the score were identified after surveying a sample of Gps. The score comprises eight variables which are individually weighted: unemployment, overcrowding, lone parents, elderly, ethnicity and, low social class. The final score is obtained by summing the variable (after statistically reworking). Higher scores indicate greater levels of GP workload.

Map of Jarman Underprivileged Area Scores.

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