Dr Jaques has been involved in Sports Medicine since 1990, he was the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) President (2012–15) and was the Director of Medical Services at the English Institute of Sport (EIS), which services summer and winter Great Britain Olympic lottery-funded athletes with both sports science and medicine since 2004.

He has attended the Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London Olympics with Team GB and the Kuala Lumpur and Manchester Commonwealth Games with the England Team in a clinical capacity. 

In 2019 he was awarded an OBE in Her Majesty the Queen’s New Year’s honours, for services to Olympic and Paralympic sport.