UK COVID-19 inquiry|30 Jul 2025
Prof. Stephen Barclay. Expert in End of Life and Palliative Care Expert.
Introduction
Professor Stephen Barclay works clinically as a General Practitioner and Palliative Medicine Honorary Consultant. He is Professor of Palliative Care at the University of Cambridge and Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Clinical Medicine at Emmanuel College. He has worked in Palliative Care research for over 20 years and published over 200 peer-reviewed papers.
NB: As lockdown visiting restrictions led to the deterioration in the health of already frail residents end of life drugs like Morphine and Midazolam were used so much they started to run out!
‘‘Visiting restrictions resulted in deteriorating physical health outcomes, such as decreased nutrition, increased physical pain, and reduced activities of daily living, particularly among elderly patients and people near the end of life. Mental health was also severely impacted, with patients experiencing loneliness, depression, agitation, and cognitive decline.’’
-Paragraph 206 of statement
‘During the first wave and the beginning of the second wave of the pandemic (March through early May 2020 and late 2020 through early 2021), there were various periods with substantial shortages of key palliative care drugs in the UK, including opioids (e.g.,morphine, oxycodone, fentanyl, and alfentanil), benzodiazepines (e.g., midazolam), antipsychotics (e.g., haloperidol and levomepromazine), and anti-emetics.’’
-Paragraph 202 of statement
Testimony highlights
Mortality rates in UK. eg-‘with COVID and ‘suspected COVID.’
End of life care provided inappropriate.
‘‘Many dying people did not receive the care that they needed and died with avoidable symptoms and distress.’’
Deaths by location
Excess deaths at home NON COVID sustained. NB: From 2020-2023 there were 20,000 excess NON COVID deaths within Scottish homes.
‘Stat at home, protect the NHS’ taken literally causing deaths.
Fear was driving people’s behaviour.
‘‘CERTAINLY there were people having serious illness such as HEART ATTACKS who stayed at home and died at home preventably.’’
Visiting
End of life visits.
‘‘I found it really distressing..what was it like for families when visiting wasn’t allowed at all?..saying goodbye over an ipad.’’
DNACPR for all residents in care home with a learning disability
Frightening decisions being made without consent.
Unimaginable impacts for families.
Huge concern vs blanket application.
‘‘In a learning disability setting it is EVEN MORE worrying…it is very scary, a blanket form of decision making which goes against all the core principles of good clinical practise.’’
‘‘This population have learning disability..therefore no (resuscitation) i mean..i’m sorry but that is SHOCKING!!’’
Questions-Jessica Jones-John’s Campaign
Deteriorating health outcomes due to visiting restrictions.
‘‘There is NO DOUBT that harm was caused.’’
Statement highlights
‘‘During the pandemic, 48% of UK hospice and palliative care services reported being slightly or a lot busier during the early pandemic months.’’
-Paragraph 156
‘‘The study found that care homes and their staff found it very difficult to deliver what they considered to be high-quality, personalised palliative and end-of-life care to people with and without Covid-19.’’
-Paragraph 161
‘‘GPs or specialist providers could not visit care homes for fear of spreading Covid-19, care home workers bore an increased burden to make up for the care that could no longer happen in person.’’
-Paragraph 163
‘‘GPs and other community services have backed away leaving us to deal with a Iot of difficult situations and questions from families" and that as a result, the end-of-life care given during the pandemic was "dangerous and neglectful and was not seamless and high quality."
-Community nurse
-Paragraph 173
‘‘Between April 9 and 19, 2020, another national survey obtained responses from 261 clinicians working in community, hospital and hospice settings across all areas of the UK and Ireland. Major changes in local end-of-life care prescribing guidance and practice were reported, including routes of medication administration (47%), drugs prescribed (38%), total quantities prescribed (35%), and doses and doses ranges (29%).’’
-Paragraph 178
‘‘In another study of palliative care services, equipment such as syringe drivers/drivers, syringe driver lines, butterfly needles, and tympanic thermometer cover were frequently reported to be low in stock, especially in home care.’’
-Paragraph 204
‘‘In some areas, patient group directives were introduced that allowed non-prescribers to take "grab bags" of end-of-life care medications with them on home visits and provided strict protocols for when they could be administered on an 'as needed' basis." A UK-wide survey of primary care providers found that 42.4% of respondents were making more anticipatory palliative care medication prescriptions during the pandemic than before the pandemic.’’
-Paragraph 217
‘‘During the pandemic, there was national concern that DNACPR orders were being put in place in a blanket fashion, including for older adults, people with intellectual disabilities, and people in care homes.’’
-Paragraph 226
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I will NEVER understand the total lack of support of the self proclaimed freedom leaders to assist in exposing this farce. They find every excuse not to get amongst it. Your work is appreciated, it's like reading how insane asylums were run in the 19th century. You've NEVER asked for a cup of coffee.
When you read the statements you realise what went on and some of the statements that should have been shouted out at the time!? You also hear from family members about their loved ones etc!? What about those elderly that have no one speaking out for them and maybe had no one to do such speaking out!? What kind of people in charge would allow such SATANIC EVIL and that starts at top with ROYALS/POLITICIANS/NHS/CAREHOME OWNERS etc and the MSM not reporting!?-------------- Evil – Where Does It Come From?
28/10/2022
By Roy M McIntosh
Where does it come from? Are we capable of it? Does it need leaders?
Over the years at times, I asked those questions as I could see evil on show—and that was overseas and at home!
In history, mainstream media, education etc we are told about the evil coming from Japan, Germany, China, Russia etc, we all go along with that.
But we should look closer to home and see what we find!
I shall not give the details because if I tried that, I may be writing till the next decade! I shall just name what is on top of my head.
1. The Highland clearances in Scotland
2. The miners’ strikes in the UK
3. Babies heads kicked off—Australia
4. Rwanda’s genocide—Yanks and Brits involvement
5. The Beggars Benison and Edinburgh Wig Club, Scotland
6. The Darien Scheme—what was behind it?
7. Children’s care homes—UK
8. Dodgy cover-ups—involving politicians, royals, Savile, Hamilton etc
I used to think that evil shown to others was one country against another, but when you look, it was right on our own doorstep. As I said, we are not being informed. You have to go and look for it, and it is not far away when you scratch under the surface of history.
Maybe at times we make excuses when our ‘flag’ is involved, and maybe a relative was involved…
That is how I found out about the Australian Aborigine babies’ heads being kicked off.
An uncle who lived in Australia from 1920 till he died, told me how the Aborigines were treated, so I read up on it and found the kicking of heads ‘horror show’.
In my mind I thought the evil was there, close to home, but I would try to make excuses and not want to believe.
Jump into the 2020s and all has been revealed. The ‘evil’ is not only in your own country, city and street but in your own very door!
Murder of the elderly spells it out, and people just turn a blind eye to it, as if it did not happen.
That was all done by the backing of politicians, doctors, churches, NHS and the mainstream media. Add on the jab ghouls going around like covid wizards, joyfully maiming and killing.
Yes, we all like to think that evil only exists across borders, but the truth is it’s in all areas of society and it is worldwide.
I think we should all look in the mirror and ask ourselves: Am I being honest?
Just published your essay on evil. See here: https://thewhiterose.uk/evil-where-does-it-come-from/