Proposed changes to cancer targets will result in 'faster diagnosis' - health minister

Health minister Will Quince said, "No targets are actually being scrapped, they're being merged into three targets", when asked about reports that two-thirds of cancer targets could be scrapped in England.

Mr Quince added: "This is an announcement due to be made after a consultation, this is not something that the government has led on, but it's NHS England, it's senior oncologists, it's clinicians and indeed cancer charities have called for this change."

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