The Government will today say new drugs could be approved more swiftly to offer novel treatments to people with serious cancers and other conditions.
Mr Willetts, the universities and science minister, told BBC Radio that lots of good ideas for new drugs fail to get off the ground.
He said there is an "appalling rate of attrition" for research at an early stage, as many scientists never manage to get their proposed medicines taken up by the NHS.
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