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Wednesday, 21 February 2024

Guidelines to use “just-in-case” killer drugs were issued shortly before the first covid lockdown, says former NHS pharmacist

 At the start of the covid crisis, we were told there was a novel disease for which there was no treatment. Because of this, guidance was issued to put in place “just-in-case” drugs which commonly consist of five drugs including morphine, midazolam and other sedatives.

We killed people, Graham Atkinson said, “I watched while this happened.”

Graham Atkinson is a pharmacist with over 30 years of National Health Service (“NHS”) senior management experience, having worked at local, regional and national levels. He has been a Director of Commissioning in several Primary Care Trusts in the North West, has consulted for the pharmaceutical industry, worked in NHS national teams and has been a partner in a general practitioner’s practice. His successful NHS career came to a sudden end in October 2021 when he decided he could no longer participate in the Government’s response to the covid crisis. He is currently a team member of Project Lifeboat, a private membership forum for allopaths.

A couple of weeks ago he joined Doc Malik for an almost 3-hour discussion about the NHS, what he witnessed during the covid era, why he walked away from the NHS to build a naturally better model of healthcare that will make the existing system redundant and more.

We have embedded the video twice. Firstly, to begin at the timestamp where Atkinson talked about the “just-in-case” drugs. Secondly, at the timestamp when he spoke about treatments that should have been used, but weren’t. You can read an unedited transcript of the discussion HERE.

On the presumption that there would be covid outbreaks in several care homes, just before the first lockdown, in early March 2020, guidelines were issued to put “just-in-case” drugs in place, Atkinson told Doc Malik. The “just in case drugs” consist of morphine, midazolam and other sedatives.

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