Dr Howell Thomas Jones

Job title

Consultant physician and geriatrician

Contact details

PA / secretary: Penelope Palmer.

Email: p.palmer1@nhs.net 

Tel: 020 7830 2943

Related services

Location

Royal Free Hospital

Biography

Dr Jones is an academic consultant physician and geriatrician appointed at the Royal Free Hospital in 2024. He completed his specialist training in North Central / East London and is dual accredited in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine was an academic clinical fellow at University College London (UCL).

He is the clinical lead for the HIV and frailty service and sits on several national and international working groups focussed on improving care for people living with HIV. Dr Jones is a honorary clinical research Fellow at the UCL institute for global health.

He is also the lead for vascular surgery liaison service and is one of the specialist inpatient Geriatricians.

GMC number

7461120

  • Jones HT, Barber TJ. How do geriatricians feel about managing older people living with HIV? A scoping review. Eur Geriatr Med. 2022 Aug;13(4):987-997. doi: 10.1007/s41999-022-00642-4. Epub 2022 Apr 9. PMID: 35397097; PMCID: PMC9378329.
  • Jones HT, Levett T, Barber TJ. Frailty in people living with HIV: an update. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2022 Feb 1;35(1):21-30. doi: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000798. PMID: 34799510.
  • Jones HT, Samji A, Cope N, Williams J, Swaden L, Katiyar A, Burns F, McClintock-Tiongco A, Johnson M, Barber TJ. What problems associated with ageing are seen in a specialist service for older people living with HIV? HIV Med. 2022 Mar;23(3):259-267. doi: 10.1111/hiv.13193. Epub 2021 Oct 25. PMID: 34693618.
  • Jones HT, Teranaka W, Hunter P, Gross L, Conroy S. What is the impact of a pre-hospital geriatrician led telephone 'Silver Triage' for older people living with frailty? Eur Geriatr Med. 2023 Oct;14(5):977-981. doi: 10.1007/s41999-023-00796-9. Epub 2023 May 23. PMID: 37219726; PMCID: PMC10587299.
  • Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative. Increasing frailty is associated with higher prevalence and reduced recognition of delirium in older hospitalised inpatients: results of a multi-centre study. Eur Geriatr Med. 2023 Apr;14(2):325-332. doi: 10.1007/s41999-022-00737-y. Epub 2023 Jan 25. PMID: 36696045; PMCID: PMC10113325.
  • Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative. Delirium is prevalent in older hospital inpatients and associated with adverse outcomes: results of a
  • prospective multi-centre study on World Delirium Awareness Day. BMC Med. 2019 Dec 14;17(1):229. doi: 10.1186/s12916-019-1458-7. PMID: 31837711; PMCID: PMC6911703.
  • Choudhary C, Kravvas G, Jones HT. What you need to know about common skin problems in older adults. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2024 Apr 30;85(4):1-8. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2023.0399. PMID: 38708977.
  • Jones HT, Davis DH. What you need to know about: delirium in older adults in hospital. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2021 Dec 2;82(12):1-10. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2020.0603. Epub 2021 Dec 15. PMID: 34983227.
  • White L, Jones HT, Davies A. What is a tilt table test and why is it performed during the investigation of syncope? Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2021 Oct 2;82(10):1-7. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2020.0462. Epub 2021 Oct 14. PMID: 34726933.
  • Florman K, Jones HT, Moores R. How to investigate and manage a patient with a Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2021 Sep 2;82(9):1-7. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2021.0077. Epub 2021 Sep 16. PMID: 34601929.

  • HIV and ageing
  • health care services design with older people in mind including virtual wards
  • delirium
  • ageing and LGBTQ+ health