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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Health
Shiena Iane B Enerio

What Is Jess's Rule: How a 27-Year-Old's Death Urges Changes in How England's GPs Diagnose Patients

NHS urges all GP practitioners in England to apply Jess's Rule. (Credit: Unsplash/Samuel Goodwin)

A new initiative from the NHS urges all GP practitioners in England to 'think again' if their patient visits them several times and they can't determine a diagnosis, or if their symptoms are progressing.

The new policy, called Jess's Rule, honours the late Jessica Brady. She went to see her GP more than 20 times after starting to feel something that was not right in her health during the summer of 2020.

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