Mr Jacobs trained as a Senior Registrar at Charing Cross, Westminster and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was an NHS Consultant at Kingston Hospital and later at Rochdale Infirmary for 27 years. He then worked for 10 years as Glaucoma Lead at The Practice Group (later Operose) until 2019.

Mr Jacobs has published numerous peer-reviewed papers covering topics such as ocular neovascularisation, light damage and the eye, and visual field research over the years and in February 2022 wrote an article on non-organic visual loss published in PI Focus.

He also wrote an article for the October 2023 edition of the Expert Witness Journal, entitled Post Head Injury Cataract – Traumatic or Not?

Mr Jacobs has undertaken medico-legal work for personal injury cases for over 20 years and medical negligence work in general ophthalmology with a special interest in glaucoma, for the past 3 years.

Mr Jacobs attends Bond-Solon and Premex courses regularly to keep updated.

Mr Jacobs has made overseas aid trips. In May 1992 he went to Albania as part of a team to operate mainly on children who were orphans from the town of Shkoder where over a period of five days he assessed sixty out-patients and carried out twenty surgical procedures.

There were three further such trips to Mostar in Bosnia, to Russia and then back to Albania.