Thousands of patients are waiting longer for treatment for conditions like heart disease, cancers and diabetes while medicines which stand to benefit the most people are caught up in the system and many patients are losing their lives. The GPs are mostly too reluctant to treat patients, even simple tests like endoscopy, ultra-sound takes months long wait.  Use of new medicines in the UK is already poor, with patients seven times more likely to get a newly launched medicine in places like Germany or France.