Dr Nick Jones is a General Practitioner (GP), GP Cardiologist and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He completed his medical training at Newcastle University alongside an intercalated Master’s degree in Clinical Education and he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Nick undertook higher training in academic general practice in Oxford, during which he completed a Master’s degree in Evidence-Based Health Care based at Harris Manchester College (HMC). Nick continued his academic training by completing a DPhil in Primary Care also at HMC, funded by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Research Fellowship. Nick’s doctoral thesis investigated how healthcare systems might deliver cost-effective service interventions to reduce the risk of stroke for people with heart failure and atrial fibrillation. He was awarded the Society for Academic Primary Care’s Doctoral Prize for this work in 2024. Nick’s DPhil studies were supplemented by completing a Turing Enrichment Fellowship.
Nick’s research has focused on the early diagnosis and prognosis of patients with cardio-metabolic-renal disease and include projects using large primary care datasets, screening studies and interventional randomised trials. Nick is part of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisal group reporting on Ambulatory Pulmonary Artery Pressure monitoring in heart failure and he is a trustee at two national charities: Cardiac Risk in the Young and Scoliosis Support and Research.
Nick is passionate about education and teaches on the national NB Medical GP Update course. He has previously worked for the Royal College of General Practitioners Essential Knowledge Updates team and with the BMJ Education service. Nick supervises DPhil, Master’s and medical students and is an academic adviser at HMC.
