Melvyn Jones is a Clinical Associate Professor in General Practice in the Dept of  Primary Care& Population Sciences at UCL. He is a General Practitioner working in London & Hertfordshire. He is an honorary NHS Consultant with NHS England(Midlands & East). 

He trained at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and completed his GP training in London and Oxford. He worked in Australia (RMO in a rural NSW hospital on the RCGP/RACGP exchange programme) before returning to the UK to complete his GP trainee year. He worked in the Bart's professorial practice in Hackney before joining the Bart's Academic Dept of General Practice (subsequently Bart's and London, Queen Mary University of London) on the Inner City Lecturer scheme. During this time he worked at a practice in Bow, gained his Masters (MSc) from King's in 1997, and worked on developing local primary care, leading on a scheme to introduce GP out of hour cooperatives across east London. He moved to the Royal Free HSM (subsequently UCL Medical School) in 1997 as lecturer, helping to launch the first iBSc in primary care. He was a Visiting Fellow to the Dept of Family Medicine, University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver in 1999-2000.  He undertook his MD with Prof Gene Feder at Bart's completing this in 2008. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer (and an Honorary NHS Consultant) in 2005, Assoc Clinical Professor in 2018 and currently leads the UCL MB BS year 4 community based teaching programme. He has maintained active clinical practice until recently as a GP partner in SE Hertfordshire, and was a full GP trainer (East of England Deanery) from 2011-2019. He is now a portfolio GP.   He was Head of Primary Care Teaching at St George's University of London until  April 2022.