... deprivation, health deprivation and disability,education, skills and training deprivation, barriers to housing and services, living environment deprivation and crime) into a single deprivation rank. Based ... MedicalEthics Committee, the Research and Development Panel of the Bedfordshire Heartlands Primary Care Trust and theResearch and Development Directorate of the UniversityCollege London Hospitals ... used to calculate the level of social deprivation using the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) [26] that combines indica-tors across seven domains (income deprivation, employ-ment deprivation,...