EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Hunt Backs Move To Increase Waiting Times For Routine New Medicines

Cancer sufferers could be among thousands of patients forced to wait longer for new medicines, Huff Post UK has learned.
The Heath Secretary Jeremy Hunt has backed a move by NHS bodies NICE and NHS England to slow access to some of the most widely applicable new drugs, in a cost-cutting move slated as “arbitrary” and “dangerous” by health experts.
Patients currently wait just 90 days for new treatments, once they are approved, but the new proposal would ex