Drugs could be available from the NHS sooner after an advisory body said it would give guidance more quickly on which medicines should be provided.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) will also be more flexible in its approach to approving life-extending drugs.
Chairman Sir Michael Rawlins told the BBC that guidance would be given within six months of drugs going to market.
He accepted criticism that this process can currently take too long.
Ministers said in June they wanted procedures to be speeded up.
"Our ambition is to make sure guidance is available within three to six months," Sir Michael told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
He said this could be achieved by increasing the number of advisory committees and starting the evaluation process a year before a drug company expects to obtain a licence.
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