Earlier this week, Johnson replaced injured duo Lewis Moody and Jonny Wilkinson in the elite squad with Michael Lipman and Danny Cipriani.
Barkley was dropped from the elite squad in January and his elevation confirms Cipriani and Geraghty have slipped further down England's pecking order.
Lewsey missed out on selection for this year's Six Nations but was recalled to the elite squad by new manager Martin Johnson in July.
Another option for Johnson at lock could be to promote Sale's 20-year-old James Gaskell to the elite squad next month, after his call-up to the Saxons.
Delon Armitage, Nick Kennedy and Peter Richards were the other London Irish players named in the elite squad in July 2008 and for the autumn internationals.
Veteran Bath prop David Barnes and uncapped forwards Richard Blaze and Courtney Lawes have been called up, while fly-half Andy Goode, scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth, winger David Strettle, back-rower James Haskell and prop Duncan Bell all join the elite squad.
Another full-back contender, Mathew Tait, is battling to shake off a hamstring injury, meaning the only fit contender at present is Delon Armitage of London Irish, who was not in either the elite squad or the second-string Saxons squad at the start of the season, but was fast-tracked into the senior squad as cover for Tait last week.
He was also part of the England squad for the 2009 summer tour of Argentina, and was named in the senior Elite Performance Squad at the start of this season.
The basis of the new club-country agreement is that England can only make like-for-like changes to the original elite squad, named by Johnson on 1 July, on the grounds of injury or suspension.
This year, however, I also had the pleasure of meeting some of the members of Seal Team Six, the elite Navy squad.
King insisted the bonus scheme was withdrawn after the last year's World Championships as UK Sport effectively took over financial responsibility for the GB elite squad.
The 37 includes the 17 members of the England elite training squad which McNamara is in the process of revising.
Brown, who was left out of the England 'elite squad' announced earlier this week, was pulling the strings for the visitors, but they missed a number of clear opportunities before Luke Dorn's pass saw Melling slide over with five minutes remaining to give Quins hope.
Since the start of the year, "The Hurt Locker, " which tells the story of an elite squad of bomb disposal experts in Iraq, has picked up numerous critics awards.
The Rugby Football Union has already stated they will introduce a new code of conduct that all players have to sign up to as part of their contract if they are included in the 32-man elite squad to be named on 1 July.
He returned from his ankle injury for England's autumn series last year but after a disappointing campaign, he did not feature in the Six Nations and was left out of Martin Johnson's elite player squad as well as the British and Irish Lions party that toured South Africa in the summer.
Although Wasps insist that Vickery is "recovering well" from the surgery, the fact that he cannot start training for a minimum of eight weeks makes him highly unlikely to be part of England boss Martin Johnson's thinking when he names his new Elite Player Squad for the tournament on 13 January.
The Leicester fly-half is part of Johnson's 32-man England elite squad and will be in line to play in the side's four November internationals, starting against the Pacific Islands at Twickenham on 8 November.
Injuries have paved the way for the 20-year-old Lawes to be promoted to England's elite player squad after just 32 first-team games for the Saints.
But Andrew, the Rugby Football Union elite rugby director who was standing in as tour manager for Martin Johnson, insisted the tour had been a worthwhile exercise ahead of the naming of a 32-man elite squad on 1 July.
This summer's contracts are expected to be awarded next week and the ECB is likely to stick to an elite squad of 12.
Six veteran players have been dropped from the initial squad training for both the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games, and for the elite six-team Champions Trophy, in Lahore in October and November.
But Sackey, one of nine Wasps players named in England manager Martin Johnson's 32-man elite squad, does not expect McGeechan to fall into the trap of selecting on the basis of familiarity.
The 29-year-old was drafted into England's Elite Player Squad after Gloucester's Mike Tindall pulled out through injury and is named at 12 despite playing most of his career at outside centre.
If the five-match tour ended on a losing note, there were still plenty of positive aspects to encourage the England management as they prepare to name a re-jigged elite player squad next month.
"If you look at the results we have done OK but the effect of the tour on the team and the wider squad has been absolutely fantastic, " added Johnson, who now has more contenders for a revamped elite squad to be announced next month.
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