[quote Waitwhatwhy]@Player456 in our trust end of life is “likely to be within 7 days”. Having just read her previous thread OPs husband has terminal cancer but not late stage so end of life won’t apply.[/quote]
That doesn't apply to our trust (Bucks).
My Dbro was taken to hospital in Slough with a urine infection during the first lockdown early summer last year.
The hospital didn't look after him properly, because he developed aspiration pneumonia. To start with no one could visit him, then when he got pneumonia we were allowed unrestricted access.
We got a call saying they were taking him off antibiotics and withdrawing care. We rushed to the hospital, where I got very upset with a nurse trying to block me, till another nurse said our family was on 24/7 access.
When we were first allowed unrestricted access, he was still being treated and they were hopeful that the antibiotics would work.
They did say that only two were allowed in at once, but no one said a word when my parents and my sister and I, all went in at once, so we could be a family together for the last time.
My dad had terminal cancer. His oncologist kept sending into hospital to check on things. We were told, the last time this happened, that they would refuse to admit him again, as his preferred place of death was home, and his kidney function wouldn't recover.
He fell at home one Sunday night, mum called the ambulance as she struggled to lift him. They insisted on taking him to hospital as he had a cut on his head.
We were allowed access again. He wasn't (at that point), thought to be in the last days of life. We had a standoff with a nurse who refused us (mum, Dsis and me), to be in there at once, until the ward clerk intervened, saying the doctor had allowed it (which is why we were all there).
Frustratingly they tried to improve dad's kidney function and refused to discharge him, as it was so bad.
We tried for a week to get him home. Then it was the weekend and they stopped the drips. We asked for him to come home immediately, as we'd arranged. The hospital refused, saying it couldn't be in place, that he was confused, it would be detrimental (though they tried to push a hospice on us).
In the end my sister said she would wheel him out herself and strip off on the roof after calling the papers, as they were so set against it.
Dad came home the next day (Sunday). He died four days later - just over a year after his beloved son died.
It may be that dad was thought to have limited time left (though they were actively treating him when we were all allowed in, as and when we wanted), same with Dbro, when we first were all allowed in (parents me and sis), he was actively being treated for pneumonia, and he was responding initially to). The fact he was allowed to get pneumonia is still a cause of distress, but I don't want to say too much in case we take it further.
OP I really hope that you can get some answers. We may be in a pandemic, but your husband isn't (or certainly shouldn't be) on a ward with Covid + patients, so there is no reason they won't let you see him. The times dad was admitted, before his final fall, we were allowed to visit him. The only times we weren't were in the ambulance or in A&E/observation ward.