CURRICULUM VITAE
BRIAN JARMAN
Professor Sir Brian Jarman OBE, MA, PhD, MB BS, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPH, FMedSci, FIC
Emeritus Professor of Primary Health Care
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
Dr Foster Unit, 12 Smithfield Street, London, EC1A 9LA, UK
Phone: Mobile: +44 7786 431691, Home: +44 207 624 5502, e-mail: b.jarman@ic.ac.uk
Born 9/7/33, married 1963, three sons (neurologist; cardiologist; and molecular geneticist)
General Medical Council number: 1418558.
Education:
School:
1944-51: Barking Abbey School: A& S levels in Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
1951: State Scholarship.
Universities:
1951-1954 Cambridge University, 1951 Open Exhibition, BA (→MA 1957) Natural Sciences
1956-60, 1964-69, 1972-now Imperial College, London
1957: Diploma of Imperial College - DIC (graduated 1st in year) in Geophysics
1960: PhD Geophysics. Thesis: “Fourier Analysis of seismic wave propagation”.
1964-69: St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London University (now Imperial College)
1969: MB BS 1st class honours (Honours in Medicine)
Prizes: Physiology, Biochemistry, Histology, Anatomy,
Clinical Medicine, Dermatology, Psychiatry.
1972-82: part time Senior Lecturer,
1983-98 full time Professor Primary Health Care
1998-now Emeritus Professor
1968, 1970 and later years Harvard College and University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1968 Undergraduate medical student 1970: Clinical Fellow, later lecturer, visiting professor.
Post-graduate examinations and fellowships
1972 Member Royal College Physicians (MRCP) UK (by examination)
1978 Member Royal College General Practitioners (MRCGP) (examination, with distinction)
1984 Fellow Royal College General Practitioners (FRCGP)
1988 Fellow Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) UK
1994 Member Faculty of Public Health Medicine
1999 Fellow Faculty of Public Health (by election)
1999 Fellow of Imperial College School of Medicine (appointed)
2000 Fellow Academy Medical Sciences (founder member).
National Military Service
1954-56: Royal Artillery: 2nd Lieutenant, 19 Field Regiment, RA.
Last year - operational research work the Army Operational Research Group (AORG), West
Byfleet, Surrey – planning Allied nuclear defence strategy in Western Europe.
Honours
1988 OBE
1998 Knighthood.
Employment
Non-medical
1960-63: Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company
Worked as a geophysicist (observer, seismologist, and party chief) in Libya (Sahara desert),
for two years in seismic exploration crew, and in Holland, for one year on seismic records.
1963-64: Geophysical Services Inc. as geophysicist working on North Sea seismic records.
Medical
1969: House physician - St Mary's Hospital, London W2
1970: House surgeon - St Bernard's Hospital, Gibraltar
1970: Resident in Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School
1971: Trainee general practitioner London NW8
1971- 1998 Unrestricted Principal in general practice (part-time Principal from 1984)
Lisson Grove Health Centre, London, NW8 8EG.
1973-83 Part-time Senior Lecturer, Department of General Practice, St Mary's
1984 – 1998 Professor of Primary Health Care and General Practice & Head of Department
Department of General Practice, St Mary's Hospital Medical School.
1995 - 1997 Head of Community Health Sciences Division, St Mary's Hospital Medical
School (Imperial College Medical School at St Mary's - ICSM).
1997 - 1998 Head of Division of Primary Care & Population Health Sciences, Imperial College
1998 – now Emeritus Professor of Primary Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College
2001 – now Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, MA, USA
2002 – now Director of the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College
2003 - 2004 President British Medical Association
Publications (selected)
In Press, submitted or accepted
Bottle A. Jarman B, Aylin P. Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios: sensitivity analyses on
the impact of coding. BMJ (submitted)
Published
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Bottle A, Jarman B, Aylin P. Strengths and weaknesses of hospital standardised
mortality ratios. BMJ 2011; 2011; 342:c7116
Jarman B, Aylin P, Bottle A. Hospital mortality ratios A plea for reason. Letter BMJ
2010;340:c2744. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.c2744
Robb E, Jarman B, Suntharalingam G, Higgens C, Tennant R, Elcock K. Using care
bundles to reduce in-hospital mortality: quantitative survey. BMJ 2010; 340: c1234
Witness Statement of Professor Sir Brian Jarman to the Mid Staffordshire NHS
Foundation Trust Inquiry. Inquiry report published 24 Feb 2010
Aylin P; Bottle A; Jarman B. Standardised mortality ratios. Monitoring mortality. BMJ
2009, 338:b1745.
Aylin P, Bottle A, Jarman B. Monitoring hospital mortality – response to the University
of Birmingham report on HSMRs. Monograph 2009.
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Jarman B, Pieter D, Veen A A van der, Kool R B, Aylin P, Bottle A, Westert G P Jones
S. The Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio: a powerful tool for Dutch hospitals to
assess their quality of care? Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:9-13
doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032953
Jarman, B., Aylin, P. & Bottle, A. comment on “Hospital mortality: When failure is not
a good measure of success.” 2008. CMAJ, 8 Aug 2008.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/179/2/153#19960
Jarman B. In defence of the hospital standardized mortality ratio. Healthc Pap.
2008;8(4):37-42; discussion 69-75. PubMed PMID: 18667869.
Richard Heijink R, Koolman X, Pieter D, van der Veen A, Jarman B, Westert G.
Measuring and explaining mortality in Dutch hospitals; The Hospital Standardized
Mortality Rate between 2003 and 2005. BMC Health Services Research 2008,
8:73doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-73
Aylin P, Elliott P, Jarman B, Hospital episode statistics v central cardiac audit database.
BMJ 2007; 335(7625): 839. (Letter)
Jarman B. Privatising primary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2006; 56(532): 884.
John Wright, Bob Dugdale, Ian Hammond, Brian Jarman, Maria Neary, Duncan
Newton, Chris Patterson, Lynne Russon, Philip Stanley, Rose Stephens, Erica Warren.
Learning from death: a hospital mortality reduction programme. R Soc Med
2006;99:303-308
Aylin P, Williams S, Jarman B, Bottle A. Trends in day surgery rates. BMJ
2005;331:803
Aylin P, Williams S, Jarman B, Bottle A. Variation in operation rates by primary care
trust. BMJ 2005;331:539
Jarman B, Middleton S. Hospital waiting lists and pressures on the NHS. BMJ
2005;330:1352
Hurwitz B, Jarman B, Cook A, Bajekal M. Scientific evaluation of community-based
Parkinson's disease nurse specialists on patient outcomes and health care costs. J Eval
Clin Pract 2005;11:97
Rogers R, Williams S, Jarman B, Aylin P. HRG drift and payment by results. BMJ
2005;330:563
Jarman B, Bottle A, Aylin P, Browne M. Monitoring changes in hospital standardised
mortality ratios. BMJ 2005;330:329
Jarman B, Aylin P. Death rates in England and Wales and the United States: variation
with age, sex, and race. BMJ 2004;329:1367
Aylin P, Williams S, Bottle A, Jarman B. Counting hospital activity: spells or episodes?
BMJ 2004;329:1207
Majeed A, Williams S, Jarman B, Aylin P. Prescribing of antibiotics and admissions for
respiratory tract infections in England. BMJ 2004;329:879
Aylin P, Bottle A, Jarman B, Elliott P. Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality in England
after Bristol: descriptive analysis of hospital episode statistics 1991-2002. BMJ
2004;329:825
Majeed A, Aylin P, Williams S, Bottle A, Jarman B. Prescribing of lipid regulating drugs
and admissions for myocardial infarction in England. BMJ 2004;329:645
Aylin P, Tanna S, Bottle A, Jarman B. How often are adverse events reported in English
hospital statistics? BMJ 2004;329:369
Barley K, Aylin P, Bottle A, Jarman B. Social class and elective caesareans in the NHS Dr Foster is cheap and offensive - Reply BMJ 2004;329:291
Barley K, Aylin P, Bottle A, Jarman B. Social class and elective caesareans in the
English NHS. BMJ 2004;328:1399
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Ions G. K, Bottle A, Jarman B, Aylin P, Taylor R. Roger Implementing guidance on hip
fracture. BMJ 2001; 328: 1568-1568 (letter)
Bottle A, Jarman B, Aylin P, Taylor R. Some way to go for consistent implementation of
guidance on hip fracture. BMJ 2004;328:1097
Jarman B, Aylin P, Bottle A. Trends in admissions and deaths in English NHS hospitals.
BMJ 2004;328:855
Jarman B, Aylin P, Bottle A. Discharge destination and length of stay: differences
between US and English hospitals for people aged 65 and over. BMJ 2004;328:605
Jarman B, Aylin P, Bottle A. Acute stroke units and early CT scans are linked to lower
in-hospital mortality rates. BMJ 2004;328:369
Aylin P, Bottle B, Jarman B, Elliott P. paediatric cardiac surgical mortality in England
after Bristol: Descriptive analysis of hospital episode statistics 1991
Jarman B, Aylin P, Bottle A. CHI ratings and HSMRs: is there a relation?
BMJ 2004;329:1136 (10 July)
Jarman B, Aylin P, Bottle A. Social class and elective caesareans in the English NHS.
BMJ. 2004;328:1399. (Letter 12 June)
Jarman B, Bottle A, Aylin P, Taylor R Mortality rates. Dead confusing. Health Serv J
112 26, 14 Nov 2002
Aylin P, Jarman SB, Kelsey T. What hospital mortality league tables tell you. BMJ
2003;326:1397
Jarman B, Bottle A, Aylin P, Taylor R. Mortality rates. Dead confusing. Health Serv J
2002;112:26
Pitman R, Jarman B, Coker R. Tuberculosis transmission and the impact of intervention
on the incidence of infection. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6:485
Jarman B, Hurwitz B, Cook A, Bajekal M, Lee A, Wilson-Barnett J. Community nurses specialising in
Parkinson’s disease may improve patients’ feelings of well-being, but not clinical outcomes. EvidenceBased Healthcare 2002 6(4):145.
Jarman B, Hurwitz B, Cook A, Bajekal M, Lee A. Effects of community based nurses
specialising in Parkinson's disease on health outcome and costs: randomised controlled
trial. BMJ 2002;324:1072
Bajekal M, Alves B, Jarman B, Hurwitz B. Rationale for the new GP deprivation
payment scheme in England: effects of moving from electoral ward to enumeration
district underprivileged area scores. Br J Gen Pract 2001;51:451
Milner P, Jarman B. Jarman scores. Family Practice 2001;6 (1): 79
Coid J, Kahtan N, Cook A, Gault S, Jarman B. Predicting admission rates to secure
forensic psychiatry services. Psychol Med 2001;31:531
Bennett J, Pitman R, Jarman B, Innes J, Best N, Alves B, Cook A, Hart D, Coker R. A
study of the variation in tuberculosis incidence and possible influential variables in
Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff in 1991-1995. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
2001;5:158
Coid J, Kahtan N, Gault S, Cook A, Jarman B. Medium secure forensic psychiatry
services: comparison of seven English health regions. Br J Psychiatry 2001;178:55
Coid J, Kahtan N, Gault S, Jarman B. Ethnic differences in admissions to secure forensic
psychiatry services. Br J Psychiatry 2000;177:241
Coid J, Kahtan N, Gault S, Jarman B. Women admitted to secure forensic psychiatry
services: I. Comparison of women and men. J Forensic Psychiatry 2000;11:275
Jarman B. The quality of care in hospitals. (Harveian Oration) J R Coll Physicians Lond
2000;34:75
Coid J, Kahtan N, Gault S, Jarman B. Patients with personality disorder admitted to
secure forensic psychiatry services. Br J Psychiatry 1999;175:528
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Jarman B, Gault S, Alves B, Hider A, Dolan S, Cook A, Hurwitz B, Iezzoni LI.
Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data.
BMJ 1999;318:1515
Higginson IJ, Jarman B, Astin P, Dolan S. Do social factors affect where patients die: an
analysis of 10 years of cancer deaths in England. J Public Health Med 1999;21:22
Hurwitz B, Bajekal M, Jarman B. Evaluating community-based Parkinson's disease
nurse specialists: rationale, methodology, and representativeness of patient sample in a
large randomized controlled trial. Adv Neurol. 1999;80:431-8. Review.
Jarman B. Deprivation payments to general practitioners. BMJ 1997;314:227
(18 January) (Letter)
Bajekal M, Jan S, Jarman B. The Swedish UPA score: an administrative tool for
identification of underprivileged areas. Scand J Soc Med 1996;24:177
Sundquist J, Bajekal M, Jarman B, Johansson SE. Underprivileged area score, ethnicity,
social factors and general mortality in district health authorities in England and Wales
Scand J Prim Health Care 1996;14:79
Jarman B, Bajekal M, Stewart J, Hurwitz B: Evaluation of community-based Parkinson’s
disease Nurse Specialists (PDNS) - the methodology of a large randomised controlled
trial. (Abstract) in Fourth International Congress of Movement Disorders, Vienna,
Austria, June 1996.
Lelliott P, Jarman B, Bajekal M and Glover G R. Commentaries on: An Index of Need
for Psychiatric Services Based on In-Patient Utilisation. Br J Psychiatry 1996: 169: 317321.
Dolan SA, Jarman B, Bajekal M, Davies PM, Hart D. Measuring disadvantage: changes
in the underprivileged area, Townsend, and Carstairs scores. 1981-91. J Epidemiol
Community Health 1995;49 Suppl 2:S30
Jarman B. Public policy issues: a British perspective. J R Soc Med 1995;88 Suppl 26:S30
Jarman B. Community hospitals: a desirable option? Editorial, Quality in Health Care,
1995; 4: 160.
Bruster S, Jarman B, Bosanquet N, Weston D, Erens R, Delbanco TL. National survey of
hospital patients. BMJ 1994;309:1542
Lorentzon M, Jarman B, Bajekal M, RCGP Inner City Task Force. Report of the Inner
City Task Force of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Occasional Pap R Coll
Gen Pract 1994;:1
Jarman B. London closures - a bed too far. European Hospital Management. Autumn
1994:53-5.
Lewis G, Appleby L, Jarman B. Suicide and psychiatric services. Lancet. 1994 Sep
17;344(8925):822.
Wallace P, Jarman B. Alcohol: strengthening the primary care response. Br Med Bull.
1994 Jan;50(1):211-20. Review.
Jarman B. Provision of acute beds in inner London: Are all Thames regions the same?:
Author's reply. BMJ. 1993; 306(6893): 1692. (letter)
Jarman B. Is London overbedded? BMJ 1993;306:979
Sonksen P, Harris A, Jarman B. Perceived strategic and practical problems in the use of
information technology for quality improvement in diabetes care in the United Kingdom.
Diabete & Metabolisme (Paris) 1993; 19: 80-88.
Jarman B, Bosanquet N. Primary health care in London--changes since the Acheson
report. BMJ 1992;305:1130
Jarman B, Hirsch S, White P, Driscoll R. Predicting psychiatric admission rates. BMJ
1992;304:1146
Jarman B, Lister EG, Royston GH. Research for the review of RAWP. J Public Health
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Med. 1992 Jun;14(2):215-6.
Jarman B, Gellert A, Sherman G, Gillam G, Wilton J. FHSA medical advisers. Br J Gen
Pract. 1991; 41(344): 130. (Letter)
Jarman B. James Mackenzie lecture 1990. General practice, the NHS review and social
deprivation. Br J Gen Pract 1991;41:76
Jarman B, General practice, the NHS review and social deprivation. British Journal of
General Practice 1991;41:76-79.
Gillam S J, Jarman B, White P, Law R. Ethnic differences in consultation rates in urban
general practice. BMJ 1989;299:953-7.
Jarman B. Uptake of immunisation: Authors' reply. BMJ. 1988 ; 297: 618. (letter)
Jarman B, Bosanquet N, Rice P, Dollimore N, Leese B. Uptake of immunisation in
district health authorities in England. BMJ 1988;296:1775
Jarman B, Cumberlege J. Developing primary health care. BMJ 1987;294:1005
Jarman B. Workload in general practice J R Coll Gen Pract. 1987; 37(298): 224. (letter)
Hartley R M, Charlton J R, Harris C M, Jarman B. Pattern of Physicians' use of medical
resources in ambulatory settings. Am J Public Health 1987;77:565-567.
Jarman B. Quality in general practice: a focus on inner cities. Editorial, J R Coll Gen
Pract 1986; 36:395-396.
Bucquet D, Jarman B, White P. Factors associated with home visiting in an inner London
general practice. BMJ 1985;290: 1480-1483
Jarman B. Does the underprivileged area index work? Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1985;
291(6501): 1050–1051. (letter)
Harris C M, Dudley H A F, Jarman B, Kidner P H. Preregistration rotation including
general practice at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. BMJ 1985;290: 1797-1799.
Harris C M, Fry J, Jarman B, Woodman E. Prescribing - a case for prolonged treatment.
J R Coll Gen Pract 1985;35: 284-287
Hartley R M, Charlton J R, Jarman B, Harris C M. Case history questionnaires in the
study of doctors' use of resources. Medical Care 1985;23:1163 -1168.
Jarman B. Giving advice about welfare benefits in general practice. BMJ 1985;290:522524.
Epstein A M, Hartley R M, Charlton J R, Jarman B et al. A comparison of ambulatory
test-ordering for hypertensive patients in the United States and England. J Am Med
Assoc 1984;252: 1723
Harris C M, Jarman B, Woodman E. Prescribing - a suitable case for treatment.
Occasional Paper 24. London: Royal College of General Practitioners, 1984.
Hartley R M, Charlton J R, Harris C M, Jarman B et al. Influence of patient
characteristics on test ordering in general practice. BMJ 1984;289:735
Jarman B. Underprivileged areas: validation and distribution of scores. BMJ
1984;289:1587-92.
Jarman B. Identification of underprivileged areas. BMJ 1983;286:1705-9.
Cummins R O, Jarman B, White PM. Do general practitioners have different referral
thresholds? BMJ 1981;282: 1037-39
Jarman B. A Survey of Primary Care in London . Occasional Paper 16, Royal College
of General Practitioners,1981.
Jarman B. Medical problems in inner London. J R Coll Gen Pract 1978;28: 598-602.
Books and chapters in books (selected)
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Jarman B. General practice in inner cities. Chapter, Medical Annual, 177-182. Bristol; John
Wright & Sons: 1983.
Jarman B (Ed). Primary Care. London; Heinemann, 1988.
Jarman B. Underprivileged areas. Chapter, Medical Annual, 224-243. Bristol; John Wright
& Sons:1985.
Jarman B, Gray D P. Undergraduate teaching and examination of general practice. Chapter,
Medical Annual, 206-212. Bristol; John Wright & Son: 1986.
Jarman B. Prescribing, time and costs in the consultation. Chapter, Medical Annual 1987, Ed
Gray DJP. Bristol, Wright, 1987.
Jarman B. The effect of the organisation of general practice on hospital admission. Chapter,
Medical Annual 1987, Ed Gray DJP. Bristol, Wright, 1987.
Jarman B. Would it be better if I moved? Chapter 11 in: Morrell D (Ed). Epidemiology in
general practice. Oxford General Practice Series 14. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Jarman B. General practice. Chapter, A While (Ed), Health in the inner city. London;
Heinemann, 1989.
Jarman B. The development of general practice in the UK. In: Primary Care. London;
Heinemann, 1988.
Jarman B. Primary care in inner cities. In: Primary Care. London; Heinemann, 1988.
Sarah Castle and Jarman B. Primary health care in developing countries. In: Primary Care.
London; Heinemann, 1988.
Jarman B. Social deprivation and health service funding. Papers in Science, Technology and
Medicine No. 22. London, Imperial College 1990.
Jarman B. Population Classifications. Chapter in: International Primary Care Computing,
Eds Hayes G N, Robinson N. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1991.
Jarman B. Information and communication technologies and primary health care in
Europe. Brussels: AIM, 1991.
Jarman B. Spatial classification of health issues: identification of underprivileged areas
using GIS. Mapping Awareness Conference Proceedings. London: Blenheim Online, 1992.
Jarman B. Psychiatric illness and services in a UK health centre. Chapter in: Primary Health
Care and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Eds Cooper B and Eastwood R, pp 99-108, London:
Routledge, 1992.
Hirsch S and Jarman B. Changing Approaches to Determining Mental Health Service
Resource Needs. Chapter in: Bhugra D and Leff J (Eds). Principles of Social Psychiatry.
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1992.
Jarman B, Lister EG, Royston Sir Graham Hart. Research for the review of RAWP. J Public
Health Med. 1992 Jun;14(2):215-6.
Jarman B and Hirsch S. Statistical Models to Predict District Psychiatric Morbidity.
Chapter in: Thornicroft G, Brewin CR and Wing, J (Eds). Measuring Mental Health Needs.
London: Gaskell, 1992.
Jolley D, Jarman B and Elliott P. Socio-Economic Confounding. Chapter in: Geographical
and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small Area Studies. Eds Elliott P, Cuzick J,
English D and Stern R. Oxford: OUP, 1993.
Wallace P and Jarman B. Alcoholism: strengthening the primary care response. British
Medical Bulletin 1994: Vol 50, No 1, pp 211-220.
Jarman B, Bajekal M. Resource Allocation to Fundholding Practices. Chapter in Resource
Allocation & Health Needs: from Research to Policy. Eds Gilman E, Munday S,
Sommerville L, Strachan R. London: HMSO, 1994.
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Lorentzon M, Jarman B, Bajekal M. Royal College of General Practitioners Inner City
Taskforce Report. Occasional Paper 66. RCGP October 1994.
Jarman B. General Practice. Chapter in Medical Negligence. Eds Powers M J and Harris N
H. London: Butterworths, 1990 (1st Edn) and 1994 (2nd Edn).
Jarman B. The crisis in London Medicine: how many hospital beds does the Capital need?
London: University of London, 1994. (Special university lecture: ISBN 07187 12 099).
Abel-Smith B, Calltorp J, Dixon M, Dunning Ad, Evans R, Holland W, Jarman B,
Mossialos E. Report on the Greek Health Services. Athens: Pharmetrica, 1994 (ISBN 085328-207-2).
Jarman B. Intervening variables. Chapter in Mental Health Services Evaluation. Kundsen &
Thornicroft (Eds). Psychiatric admission rates: the relationship with health and social factors
and the effects of intervening variables. CUP, 1995.
Working Party of the Royal College of Physicians of London. “Setting Priorities in the NHS
- A Framework for Decision-Making”. Report of a Working Party of the Royal College of
Physicians of London. London: Royal College of Physicians of London , 1995. (ISBN 1
86016 020 4)
Weston D, Bosanquet N, Jarman B. Developing primary care resource pack. London:
Department of Health, 1996.
Jarman B, Astin P, Gault S, Lang H, Ruggles R and Wallace M. "The contribution of
London’s academic medicine to UK’s health and economy" Report for the deans of the
London medical schools. London University, London 1997.
Independent Review Panel. Health Services in London. London: Department of Health
1998.
Hurwitz B, Bajekal M, Jarman B: Evaluating Community-based Parkinson’s Disease Nurse
Specialists – Rationale, Methodology and Representativeness of Patient Sample in a Large
Randomised Controlled Trial. Chapter in: Parkinson's Disease: Advances in Neurology: Vol.
80. Ed. Gerald M Stern. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
Jarman B. The Harveian Oration of 1999. The Quality of Care in Hospitals. London: Royal
College of Physicians, 1999. ISBN 1 86016 113 8
National Centre for Social research, Picker Europe, Imperial College of Science Technology
and Medicine. The National survey of Patients. London: NHS Executive, 1999.
Jarman B, Hurwitz B. General Practice. Chapter in “Clinical Negligence” (3rd edn) Eds
Powers M and Harris N. London: Butterworths, 2000. ISBN 0-406-02461-9
Royal College of Physicians. Acute Medicine Working Party Report. 2000.
Howard R, Jarman B, Kennedy I, Maclean M. Report into the Removal and Retention of
Human Material. London, Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry May 2000
Howard R, Jarman B, Kennedy I, Maclean M. Learning from Bristol: the report of the public
inquiry into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984 -1995
Command Paper: CM 5207. London; Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry, July 2001
Hurwitz B, Jarman B, Cook A, Bajekal M. Scientific evaluation of community-based
Parkinson’s disease nurse specialists on patient outcomes and healthcare costs. Chapter in:
The Effective Management of Parkinson’s disease. Ed Findlay L, Hurwitz B, Miles A.
London; Aesculapius Medical Press, 2004.
Selected Monographs and reports from 1991
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"The North Kensington elderly persons' integrated care system (EPICS)". HHRU
Monograph, 1991.
"District health authority revenue resource allocations in the South-western Regional Health
Authority". Report, May, 1991.
"Evaluation of treatment of drug misuse within a general practice setting". Claire Nissel,
Brian Jarman, Claire Robbins, Dennis Yandoli, Rose Richardson, Kathy Harris. Report to
NW Thames RHA, 1991.
"Computerisation of health centre records". A report for the Gibraltar Health Authority,
November 1991.
"Generic prescribing". A report for the Gibraltar Health Authority, November 1991.
Link-working. The Department of General Practice, St Mary's Hospital Medical School.
1993.
Bajekal M, Davies P, Dolan S, Hart D, Jarman B: Resource allocation to general practitioner
fundholders, Evaluation of Data Quality: Phase I Report to North West Thames RHA, 1993.
Bajekal M, Davies P, Dolan S, Hart D, Jarman B: Resource allocation to general practitioner
fundholders, Predicted Inpatient Activity and Weighted Capitation Formula. Phase II Report
to North West Thames RHA, 1993.
Jarman B, Bajekal M, Dolan S, Hart D: Resource allocation to general practitioner
fundholders, South Western RHA, 1994.
Trigg A, Bajekal M, Jarman B: Review of “A formula for distributing NHS revenues based
on small area use of hospital beds” (York University), for NHS Executive, 1994.
London Strategic Review, Commissioned by Department of Health. Department of Health,
Feb1998 (‘The Turnberg Report’).
Bosanquet N, Jarman B, Dolan S, Bruster S, Watson L. The Bromsgrove total purchasing
project, 1994-1996. West Midlands Regional Office 1998.
Howard R, Jarman B, Kennedy I, Maclean M. Report into the Removal and Retention of
Human Material. London, Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry May 2000.
Howard R, Jarman B, Kennedy I, Maclean M. Learning from Bristol: the report of the public
inquiry into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984 -1995
Command Paper: CM 5207. London; Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry, July 2001.
Since 2001 various HSMR related publications (see via internet).
Editorial Boards
1994 – 2005 European Associate Editor of Journal Watch Published by the Massachusetts
Medical Society, publishers of The New England Journal of Medicine.
1997 - 2005 Editorial Board “Ethnicity and Health”.
Committees (selected) and Collaborative work
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1975 – 1978: Member NE District Kensington Chelsea & Westminster Area Health
Authority Community Health Council.
1976 to 1998: Member Kensington Chelsea & Westminster Local Medical Committee.
1978 - 1983: Member Bloomsbury District Management Team (previously NE District
Kensington Chelsea & Westminster Area Health Authority DMT).
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1979 - Great Chapel St Medical Centre/Trustee, Wytham Hall unit for the homeless.
1980 - 1981: Member London Health Planning Consortium, Primary Health Care Study
Group (Aches Committee).
1981 – Medical Advisory Committee Medical Sickness Society (part of Wesleyan Ins Co)
1983 to 1989: Medical member BBC Science Consultative Group.
1986 to 1994: member (Chair to 1988) Joint Computing Group - Royal College General
Practitioners, General Medical Services Committee BMA, and Department of Health.
1986 to 1989: Member Paddington & North Kensington Primary Care Planning Team.
1987 to 1989: Member Medical Research Council, Health Services Research Committee.
1987 to about 1999: Counsellor to Helen Hamlyn Foundation.
1988 to 1990: Member of English National Board (nurse training in England).
1989 and 1992 - evaluator and rapporteur of European Community AIM (Advanced
Informatics in Medicine) Exploratory Phase projects. 1989 and 1990 - member of AIM
Requirements Board.
1990 to 1996: Non-executive member Kensington Chelsea & Westminster Family Health
Service Authority.
1991 to 1993: Chair St Mary's Hospital Medical School Curriculum Review Steering
Committee and Core Group, from 1993 Member of School Medical Education subcommittee.
1991 to 1995: part time Medical Adviser/Consultant, Barnet FHSA.
1993 to 1994 member (1994 Chair): subject panel in general practice, London University.
1993 to 1998 Member of King's Fund Grants Committee.
1996 approx - now Member of King's Fund's General Council
1994 to 1996 - Chair Imperial College Occupation Health Committee and member of Health
and Safety Committee.
1994 to 1998: member ICMIT (Imperial College/Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Medical Informatics group.
1994 - European Associate Editor of Journal Watch (a review journal published by the
publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine).
1994 to 1998: Member King’s Fund Management Committee.
1995 to 1998: Member of Council, Royal College of Physicians.
1995: Member of RCP Working Party on “Setting Priorities in the NHS”.
1995 - member of the RCP Patient and Carers sub-committee.
1995 - Trustee Anna Freud Centre, Hampstead (Chair January 1966 to January 2003).
1995 to 1996: Chair research group for King’s Fund Commission revised report on
London’s health services.
1995 to 1996: Chair of research group working for London Medical School Deans on
London’s Health Services and Medical Schools.
1995 to 1997: Chair of Community Health Sciences Division, ICMS at St Mary's
1995 to 1998: Member of Board of Management, Imperial College Medical School at St
Mary's.
1995 to 1997: executive member of Central London Multifund.
1997 to 1998: member Principal’s Advisory Group, Imperial College School of Medicine
1997 to 1998: Head of Division, Division of Primary Care and Population Health Sciences,
Imperial College School of Medicine
1997 to 1998: Independent Advisory Panel, London Strategic Review, Commissioned by
Department of Health (‘The Turnberg Report’ panel member).
1998 - Member of Department of Health’s Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation
(ACRA).
1998 – 2005 Member Standing Medical Advisory Committee, Department of Health
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1999 – 2001 Panel Member, Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry
2001 - Head of Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College, London.
2001 – Advisor to Dr Foster Ltd.
2001 - Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, MA, USA
2001- Annual visiting lecturer at Harvard Medical School on “The Quality of Healthcare in
America: International perspectives” course.
2003 – 2004 President, British Medical Association (BMA)
2003 – 2004 Ex-Officio Member BMA committees, including Council, CCSC, and GPC.
2007– Commonwealth of Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council – 21 Sep
2007 Invited Speaker and collaborative work on quality of care.
2007 – Health Care for All and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical
Errors - 24 Sep 2007 Invited Speaker and collaborative work on quality of care.
2007 – Imperial college London Centenary Meeting with Harvard and MIT - 25 Sep 2007
Invited Speaker.
2010 - Chair, BMA Working Party on NHS IT.